From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 11 5: 7:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.eu.informix.com (ifmxlenx.na.informix.com [192.147.111.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C224114BED for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 05:07:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thoffman@informix.com) Received: from informix.com (thoffman@karenmc.eu.informix.com [192.157.166.53]) by post.eu.informix.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA26136 for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 12:56:20 +0100 (BST) From: thoffman@informix.com Message-ID: <37381D63.95D74148@informix.com> Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 13:06:59 +0100 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: install via parallel port dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I would like to install FreeBSD (3.1) from a cdrom onto my notebook, which has no built in cdrom-drive -- but I have an external one for the parallel port. When I booted first I could configure some hardware, but I did not find anything about parallel-port devices. Also I did not find any reference from the PIO-page (pc-card for FreeBSD, you know...) towards parallel-port devs. Is it possible at all to use the parport-devs from within FreeBSD ?? Thanks for any help, Thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message