From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 10 04:30:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA13232 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 04:30:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA13223 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 04:30:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id NAA19322; Thu, 10 Oct 1996 13:23:12 +0200 (IST) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 13:23:12 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: Peter Childs cc: giorgetti@imimail.imisigeco.it, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I am not able to install, because of... In-Reply-To: <199610101007.TAA01391@al.imforei.apana.org.au> 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, 10 Oct 1996, Peter Childs wrote: > In article 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! >