From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 14 06:03:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA00199 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 06:03:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA00182 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 06:03:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from diablo.ppp.de by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA06258 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Sun, 14 Jul 1996 06:03:15 -0700 Received: from allegro.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0ufPsd-000QbyC; Sun, 14 Jul 96 14:02 MET DST From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Received: (grog@localhost) by allegro.lemis.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id NAA21845; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 13:54:53 +0200 Message-Id: <199607141154.NAA21845@allegro.lemis.de> Subject: ATAPI CD-ROMS (was: help) To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 13:54:53 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Hackers) In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at Jul 12, 96 11:32:54 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug White writes: > > On Fri, 12 Jul 1996, Erwin Stampfer wrote: > >> BSD is not able to find my CD-ROM Drive. The latter - a Mitsumi FX600 - >> is jumpered as a slave device of the harddisc (same port, same interrupt). >> I do not want to alter the hardware configuration of my computer. Is >> there another possibility. > > . FTP from ftp.freebsd.org or from a local machine, if you're on a net. I'm not. > . Install from a DOS partition. I don't use DOS. I bought this machine specifically for FreeBSD. > . Install from floppies. What's a floppy? And where do I get them from? How much do they cost? (See page 151 of Installing FreeBSD for an answer). > Plenty of choices :) Hobson's choice. Seriously, I think that this area and problems with EIDE disks are the two biggest factors working against the spread of FreeBSD. ATAPI CD-ROMs must account for 70% of installation problems. Soon they'll be standard equipment on all PCs. We need to do something about the situation. Greg