From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 12 19:50:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA15708 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 19:50:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA15700 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 19:50:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA00379; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 19:50:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 19:50:39 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: George Hegyes cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATAPI CD-ROM In-Reply-To: <33029FF1.7036@internetuniverse.com> 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 Wed, 12 Feb 1997, George Hegyes wrote: > I know the experimental status of ATAPI cdroms using freeBSD but I have > a would like to install my freeBSD 2.1.6 off of my cdrom, I have > installed it several times with no success. The system has two hard > drives and is running MS-DOS (Windows 95) on the main hard drive, on the > second drive I have installed freeBSD, the book "The Complete FreeBSD" > from walnut creek mentions a file called "atapi.flp" which is used for > creating boot diskettes for systems using IDE CDROMS, my January 1997 > CDROM does not have this file & your FTP site does not contain it in the > FLOPPIES directory. I am very interested in getting this running as soon > as possible, can you provide some answers or maybe the file if you think > that will help. Atapi.flp doesn't exist anymore. Try moving your CDROM to the slave position on the primary controller. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major