From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 22 21:43:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA26791 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:43:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA26768 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:43:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA02639; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:42:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:42:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Craig Everett cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCMCIA cdroms In-Reply-To: <35DC8F34.4D21@cpmx.saic.com> 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 Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Craig Everett wrote: > I have a PCMCIA cdrom drive that is installed in my c: partition(Win95). > When I boot from the FreeBSD install disk and try to install form cdrom > onto my d: partition, BSD can't detect the cdrom drive. I installed this > cdrom drive from DOS but it still won't recognize the drive. If you guys > have any suggestions I would love to hear them. thanks Your PCMCIA CDROM probably requires a special driver and is not supported by the standard boot floppy. Copy the installation files to the WIndows partition as directed in the instruction booklet then do a DOS install to copy the files from that partition. 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