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Subject: Re: Creating driver update disks (driver disks)
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karim sk wrote:
>    Hi,
>    Anybody knows how to create driver disks for FreeBSD ?
>    I want to ask one more question, "Whether FreeBSD allows to supply
>    driver disks at the installation time, so that installation media sees
>    the new hardware ?"
>    Thanks in advance.
>    Karim
>   
FreeBSD generally doesn't have driver disks. If you tell us what 
hardware isn't being detected, we might be able to help :)

Cheers,
    Benjamin