From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 14 11:40:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA29179 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 11:40:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from cfa.harvard.edu (cfa.harvard.edu [128.103.40.170]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA29068 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 11:38:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from head-cfa (head-cfa.harvard.edu [128.103.42.3]) by cfa.harvard.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA00666 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 14:37:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from russ by head-cfa (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA24810; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 14:37:20 -0500 Message-Id: <199611141937.OAA24810@head-cfa> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: PCMCIA question and ports question Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 14:29:53 -0500 From: Oliver Oberdorf Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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?). ===================== Thanks for your time, -Oly