From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 20 00:41:57 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA21254 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 00:41:57 -0700 Received: from campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.225.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA21199 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 00:40:42 -0700 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de by campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (4.1/campino-6) id AA17390; Thu, 20 Apr 95 09:39:01 +0200 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.8/8.6.9) id JAA06975; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 09:49:11 +0200 Message-Id: <199504200749.JAA06975@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ATAPI/IDE CDs To: spp@vx.com (Stephen Potter) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 09:49:10 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com (user alias) In-Reply-To: <9504192356.ZM14073@squid> from "Stephen Potter" at Apr 19, 95 11:56:54 pm From: Christoph Kukulies Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1548 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I can't seem to find anything specific in any of the FAQs I've read, so I'm > going to try here... > > Does FreeBSD 2.0 support ATAPI/IDE CDs or not? I recently bought the No. You can either wait for the release of the 2.1 CD or ....... > FreeBSD CDrom from WC and am trying to install it on an AcerPower Pentium > 60 (the 8879? model) with a Mitsumi IDE CD. I don't see anywhere in the > startup files that it can support that drive. Is it possible to pull > certain parts of it off to my DOS slice (bin, compilers, and source, I .... you - I see you have a DOS partition - copy the distribution parts (bin, src) to your DOS partition, then boot FreeBSD (which may be a minimum version at that time) , mount the DOS partition and install the rest. > suppose), install them and build a new kernel to handle the drive, or I am > just basically out of luck with the drive? > > Steve > PS: Sorry I'm not more up on my PC jargon, but I work with "real" machines > (Suns and SGIs) on a regular basis. PCs are a new hobby I'm starting on, > and I want a real OS (FreeBSD or Linux or both...) instead of just > DOS/Windoze. > > -- > Stephen P Potter spp@vx.com Varimetrix Corporation > 2350 Commerce Park Drive, Suite 4 Palm Bay, FL 32905 > (407) 676-3222 CAD/CAM/CAE/Software > > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de FreeBSD blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de 2.1.0-Development FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development #2: Tue Apr 11 20:03:36 MET DST 1995 root@blues:/usr/src/sys/compile/BLUESGUS i386