From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 20 10:14:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA06119 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Oct 1997 10:14:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA06114 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 1997 10:14:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA04311; Mon, 20 Oct 1997 10:14:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 10:14:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Bob Angell cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM - PCMCIA Combo ?? Possible? In-Reply-To: <34479FC1.23941A47@ibm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Bob Angell wrote: > I have a laptop that I would like to install the CD 2.2.2-R > version ... and I have not had alot of luck installing from > the FTP stuff ... therefore, I purchased the CD ... and I am > not having alot of luck getting it installed on a laptop ... > I tried a parrallel port BACKPACK CD from DOS (I only have > 500MG ... so a DOS install won't work well as I would like > to have BSD on the entire disk) and another possibility would > be a SCSI PCMCIA Adaptec 1460A with a SCSI CD. It appears > that the 1460 is NOT supported? Anyone able to do this and > make it work?? It should be supported through the PAO boot floppy. PAO is an advanced PCCARD support system. See http://www.jp.freebsd.org/PAO/. > I also have a 3COM card connected and I guess I could install from the > another machine with a CDROM via IP address?? Sure can. Just set up the ftp server with anonymous access and mount the CD under/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.2-RELEASE/. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major