From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 13 11:19:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA12728 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:19:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA12627 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:18:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA01040; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:17:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:17:22 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Tom Field cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI IDE CDROM Drives In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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