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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



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