From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 20 09:35:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA12159 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 May 1997 09:35:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA12150 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 09:35:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id TAA17836; Tue, 20 May 1997 19:34:52 +0300 (IDT) Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 19:34:52 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron To: Tom Mullen cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question In-Reply-To: <3381D59A.31D3@seti.tec.sd.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 20 May 1997, Tom Mullen wrote: > My school is trying to set a dual boot system, so the students can either > boot to freebsd or Windows 95. We have 40 Meg's of RAM and 2 hard > drives, one is for freebsd and is 1 Gig and the other one is for Windows > 95 and is also 1 Gig. We want to install off of the CD Rom but we can't > get it to recognize our CD Rom, the type of CD Rom we have is a Torisan > and the type of driver is Atapi. Can you add a new driver to the > kernel,and if you can how would you go about doing that? > > Thank you > Try the following configuration: Connect the CD either as the slave on the primary controller (i.e., connect the first HD and the CD to the first controller and the second disk to the second controller) or as the master on the secondary controller (i.e. both disks on the first controller and the CD alone on the second EIDE controler). Have the CD in the drive when you boot the install floppy and see if it gets recognized. Most ATAPI CDs will be recognized in one of these two configurations. Nadav