From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 23 13:23:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA15687 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:23:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA15677 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:23:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA08400; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:22:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 13:22:40 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "David B. Small" cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Using a 2.2.5 boot floppy to load from a 2.2.2 CDROM In-Reply-To: <01BD26FE.6019BC90.david.small@usa.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, David B. Small wrote: > I have a Walnut Creek 2.2.2 CDROM. > My computer configuration (ATAPI CDROM drive on the 2nd controller, an > inability to move it to the first controller, ...) has made it difficult > for me to install FreeBSD (and I've been unsuccessful in loading from a FAT > partition, as the install program has trouble mounting it, even after the > partition editor has found it) > > In any case, I believe that 2.2.5 may have better ATAPI support, but I > don't have 2.2.5. > I'd like to know if it's possible for me to download some small subset of > 2.2.5 from cdrom.com, and then use that to install from my CD. > > Thanks for your help (and thanks to everyone who's helped so far), Yes -- you can fetch the 2.2.5 boot.flp, go to the options screen, and tell it you're installing 2.2.2. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major