From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 2 11:49:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA05271 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 11:49:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA05266 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 11:49:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA06966; Mon, 2 Jun 1997 11:49:28 -0700 (PDT) To: Thomas David Rivers cc: freebsd-hackers@hub.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What's wrong with a bootable CDROM??? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 02 Jun 1997 11:16:38 EDT." <199706021516.LAA21941@lakes.water.net> Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 11:49:28 -0700 Message-ID: <6963.865277368@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > You see, the packages are the installation (bootable) CD-ROM, and > I tend to leave it in the drive. So turn off the bootable CDROM support in your controller setup, you dingus! ;-) That's generally the concensus on this, BTW. You do *not* leave it on as a general rule and the only time you enable it is when you actually need it, turning it off again after installation. Jordan