From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 13 08:59:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA04072 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 08:59:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu ([128.223.186.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA04035 for ; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 08:59:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA03523; Sat, 13 Jul 1996 09:00:14 -0700 Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 09:00:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: csmith@northcoast.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New to FreeBSD. In-Reply-To: <199607130859.BAA28353@redwood.northcoast.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 13 Jul 1996 csmith@northcoast.com wrote: > I just made the decission to go with FreeBSD over Linux. Good choice. > I was able to get version 2.0.5, 2 CD-rom set. Ack. If you can hang on for a couple of weeks 2.1.5 will be out. > Ok, I have made the boot > disk, and when I tell it to use the Media of CDROM, it says that the > device is not to be found. I just installed a new CD-rom drive, and it > is using an Interface card, since it doesn't seem to like going through > an EIDE card, as a slave or primary drive.. Ok, is there away around > this, I have looked on other sites, and have seen a driver for the APADI > (sp) IDE driver support. Will this work, not ready to try it yet. 2.0.5 did not support ATAPI CDs. 2.1.0 and later does. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major