From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 14 21:46:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA16542 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:46:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA16535 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:46:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA28366; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:45:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:45:42 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Oliver Oberdorf cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCMCIA question and ports question In-Reply-To: <199611141937.OAA24810@head-cfa> 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 Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Oliver Oberdorf wrote: > 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/ Thanks for posting that! I think it's going to save my bacon on a Gateway 2000 Solo that refuses to probe my 3c589. > 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. I don't speak for the FreeBSD Project leadership here, but my thought is that since the install disks lag behind the releases, it doesn't make much sense to produce a 2.2 CD with a 2.1.5 PCCARD installer on it which won't work on that distribution anyway. > 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?). We have enough problems with space on the boot floppy as is. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major