From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 4 11:30:58 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51B3A37B401 for ; Sun, 4 May 2003 11:30:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from CRWdog.demon.co.uk (c-67-161-102-60.client.comcast.net [67.161.102.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7792E43FDF for ; Sun, 4 May 2003 11:30:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spadger@best.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by CRWdog.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id A05C147; Sun, 4 May 2003 11:29:58 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Oliver Lehmann In-Reply-To: Message from Oliver Lehmann <20030504124635.1a13ebbd.lehmann@ans-netz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1620505452P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 11:29:58 -0700 From: Andy Sparrow Message-Id: <20030504182958.A05C147@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy Support X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 18:30:58 -0000 --==_Exmh_1620505452P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > yeah.. the Controller exchange drive A with your cdrom. So it looks like > your cd-rom is a floppy drive and you can boot from. But when you are in > sysinstall. You can't choose install from cd-rom - because you don't have > a cdrom... just a floppy... you see how fscking this is? I don't understand your statement. I haven't had any problems for a long time running sysinstall from a CD-ROM I've just booted from, either SCSI or IDE[0] I seem to recall some very old distros having this problem, but I haven't seen it since 2000 or so. Cheers, AS [0] with the exception of an ancient 2X PC-Card CD-ROM on a Gateway ColorBook II that could not used from FreeBSD (least, I could never get it usable, although it probed and attached apparently correctly). --==_Exmh_1620505452P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE+tVwmPHh895bDXeQRAsKlAKCbISOt71SgW1xTciTe1z9K2UQrywCgv366 f23YXifAfH82lvdbRoR0IiE= =gATD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1620505452P--