Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:17:22 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Tom Field <tom@nautilus.eng.orgella.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI IDE CDROM Drives Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980213111626.1014E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.95.980211155427.2302A-100000@tlf.eng.orgella.com>
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On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Tom Field wrote: > During the boot floppy boot process, it recognizes the hard drive OK, but > I do not see that it recognizes the CDROM. During the setup where you > enable or disable drivers that you don't or do need, I don't see anything > about the ATAPI IDE CDROM. I do see driver enables for older CDROM drives > (2x speed etc). You don't need to config ATAPI CDs; they're attached during the ide controller's probe. Just make sure the wdc driver is configured properly. > I did order the new book that you recommended from Walnut. > It covers version 2.2.5 which is my version. Someone wrote to me and said > that I should be able to install from the CDROM running DOS. I have DOS 7 > on a boot floppy with the drivers for the CDROM. There is no operating > system on the hard drive but I have created DOS partitions and copied > files from the CDROM to the DOS partition successfully. Can I just go to > the install program on the CDROM using the DOS 7 boot disk and run that > program to install? Yes. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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