From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 22 09:38:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA16144 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 09:38:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.southeast.net (root@ns1.southeast.net [204.183.221.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA16123 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 09:38:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ts1-017.southeast.net (ts1-017.southeast.net [204.183.221.242]) by ns1.southeast.net (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA01689; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 12:47:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <2.2.16.19960422164410.2da7c63c@mail.jaxnet.com> X-Sender: bwern@mail.jaxnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 12:44:10 -0400 To: jeff@stat.uconn.edu From: Ben Wern Subject: Re: Installation from an IDE CDROM Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >In case any such or similar accident were to happen again, is there a way >to incorporate my new compiled kernel into the Walnut Creek installation >program so that my installation would be far quicker if needed in the >future? Jeff, There is a boot / install floppy image available on the FTP site that has ATAPI support built into the kernel. If you boot from this, your CDROM will become available, and you can do the install from there. MUCH quicker, I might add. :) Ben bwern@jaxnet.com or bwern@unf.edu "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."