Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 14:29:53 -0500 From: Oliver Oberdorf <oly@head-cfa.harvard.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: PCMCIA question and ports question Message-ID: <199611141937.OAA24810@head-cfa>
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I use a laptop with a PCMCIA SCSI card to access
my CD-ROM drive. Currently, this means that I
download a PCMCIA-ready installation floppy from
Tatsumi Hosokawa at
http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa/PAO/
While not a great effort, this means that I have
to hold on to that extra floppy. I would be
*much* happier if the PCMCIA stuffs would be
included as part of the FreeBSD distribution -
or at least the installation floppy - even if as
an "unsupported" subdirectory. Incidentally,
I can also only run FreeBSD 2.1.0 or 2.1.5 as
installation floppies are only produced for the
most current official release. This is why I
am not testing 2.2 via one of the snapshots.
Assuming that there would be room on a CD for it,
I don't see any reason not to include the install
floppy. If there are reasons, I'd like to know
what they are (I did notice Hosokawa wasn't
listed as a contributor - is the package
non-free?).
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Thanks for your time,
-Oly
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