Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:51:54 -0500 From: "HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER" <christopher.hollow@cgi.com> To: "Wouter Grol" <wgrol@home.nl> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cdrom Message-ID: <402D00AA.3020002@cgi.com> In-Reply-To: <938E3876-5CD6-11D8-A5C2-003065ABFD92@mac.com> References: <402A985A.7040007@home.nl> <938E3876-5CD6-11D8-A5C2-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
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Save yourself the $50 investment in the old hardware and do a network installation. You'll need a floppy drive and a network card. Create the boot floppies and choose FTP installation. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html#INSTALL-FLOPPIES Yank that old CD-ROM out all together... Christopher Hollow Charles Swiger wrote: > On Feb 11, 2004, at 4:02 PM, Wouter Grol wrote: > >> I have an old pc on witch I want to install freebsd, only when the >> bios does not see the cdrom drive. But windows does. > > > Hi-- > > If the BIOS doesn't recognize the CD-ROM drive, that's generally a > NO-GO for FreeBSD working with the drive. You probably have a > proprietary driver for the device to make it work under Windows. > However, I think FreeBSD had limited support for some of the old > pre-ATAPI CD-ROM drives from Mitsumi and Sony (rebranded by > Creative)...from LINT see: > > # > # Miscellaneous hardware: > # > # mcd: Mitsumi CD-ROM using proprietary (non-ATAPI) interface > # scd: Sony CD-ROM using proprietary (non-ATAPI) interface > > Is your drive one of these? Otherwise, it's probably better to spend > $50 and get a standard CD-ROM drive... > -- Christopher Hollow - Technical Consultant Infrastructure & Technology Support Toronto, ON
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