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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Initio A100U2W
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Grant Peel wrote:
> How does one install a new driver (that does not come with FreeBSD) when 
> the system wont install (does not see the Initio SCSI controller) ?
> 
> I have the source code and can do the changes to the Kernel etc after, 
> but the chicken and the egg thing has got me....

You could build the driver into a kernel by setting up a system on another 
machine and doing a buildworld/buildkernel cycle, and then move the hard drive 
over to the system with this device.

-- 
-Chuck