From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 8 18:42:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA21508 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 May 1996 18:42:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sundial.sundial.net (root@sundial.sundial.net [204.181.150.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA21496 for ; Wed, 8 May 1996 18:42:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Default (pm3-16.sundial.net [204.181.150.56]) by sundial.sundial.net (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id VAA14472; Wed, 8 May 1996 21:41:57 -0400 Message-Id: <199605090141.VAA14472@sundial.sundial.net> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Bryan J. Smith, E.I." Organization: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engi To: babel@cais.cais.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 01:43:09 +0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Install freeBSD Reply-to: b.j.smith@ieee.org Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM driver is ALPHA QUALITY. It didn't work for me either. Try waiting for the 2.1.1 release, or you can spend the dozen+ hours downloading it all at 28.8Kbaud (like I did). Later ... > Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 17:46:23 -0400 > From: babel@cais.cais.com > Subject: Install freeBSD > To: questions@freebsd.org > Cc: babel@cais.com > Have your freeBSD CD-ROM. Own Pentium PC with NEC (273) IDE CD-ROM using a > Mitsumi Driver. FreeBSD Sys Boot Hdw Config does not recognise it. Any > suggestions? > > If I install freeBSD via floppy, what sys config includes your "wcd" driver and > kernel re-build utilities (compiler/Make). Thinking that I could install enough > via floppy to remake the kernal to include the IDE CD-ROM Driver wcd. > > Thanks in advance > > any info at all will be helpful > > Bob Abel > (703) 802-8094 > babel@cais.com > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "I am Pentium of Borg. Precision is futile, you will be approximated." -- Stan "The Man" Buchanan, Jr. ========================================================== BRYAN J. SMITH, E.I. b.j.smith@ieee.org Systems Engineer http://www.sundial.net/~bjsmith/ ---------------------------------------------------------- - NSPE/FLBPR Certified Engineering Intern (E.I.) - IEEE Central FL Branch Secretary ---------------------------------------------------------- 1006 Teague Court Home: (407) 366-4620 Oviedo, FL 32765-7002 or: (407) 365-4693 ==========================================================