Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 13:23:12 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: Peter Childs <pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au> Cc: giorgetti@imimail.imisigeco.it, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I am not able to install, because of... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961010132112.19316A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il> In-Reply-To: <199610101007.TAA01391@al.imforei.apana.org.au>
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On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Peter Childs wrote: > In article <B0000001324@moon.imisigeco.it> you wrote: > > : Now I cannot move to slave my CD-ROM because of my other operating > : systems installed!!! > : Please help me and tell me that dowloading some new patches I will be > : able to use my master CD-ROM and I will use your BSD. I appreciated > : very much your manual! I think you should try moving it to the slave position anyhow. Most OS's don't mind. AFAIK DOS, Win95 and WinNT don't mind (though you may have to add/remove an option from a device driver). What OS do you use that seems to mind? > > See the handbook section on installation, and consider doing a > installation from a DOS partition. > > Basically this involves using your DOS to copy installation files > from the CD-ROM to your DOS partition, and installing from there. > > However, please note that if you don't move your CD-ROM then even > if you get FreeBSD installed you will not be able to access it > while running FreeBSD. I remember seeing in the hackers archive some patches to the driver that may be able to recognize CDROM's that were not supported before. You may want to look that up. > > Regards, > Peter > > PS. A copy of the handbook can be found on the web at > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.html > > -- > Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds > Finger pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au for public PGP key > Drag me, drop me, treat me like an object! >
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