From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 29 09:31:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA26910 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:31:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line13.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA26902 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:31:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA08551; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:31:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:31:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Simon Duffield cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation from CD-ROM In-Reply-To: <33DE08E1.593E@towtech.demon.co.uk> 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 Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Simon Duffield wrote: > Hopefully just a quick question! > > When installing FreeBSD, can this be done from an Enhanced IDE CD-ROM, > or does it have to be a SCSI device? Although it involves sacrificing small animals, you might be able to convice FreeBSD to talk to your IDE CDROM. The interface is horribly flakey and it may or may not work. The best thing to do is to try it. You can check to see if you got it by pressing ALT-F2 at the menu. If it says 'found a device of type CDROM' then you're good. Otherwise, try moving your CDROM to the slave device on your primary controller. Needless to say, the SCSI CDROMs probe flawlessly. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo