From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 10 19:47:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA28174 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:47:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA28098 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:47:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA00310; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:47:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:47:19 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Tom Field cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI IDE CDROM Drives In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Tom Field wrote: > > > I am sure that this question has been asked before, but I am new to this, > but my son and I are attempting to install FreeBSD 2.2.5 and we have an > ATAPI IDE CDROM drive. Greg Lehey's Running FreeBSD 2.1 says to use > /cdrom/floppies/atapi.flp to create the boot disk. Unfortunately, we have > been unable to find that file on the cdrom. Yipe! Running FreeBSD is ancient, and it was wrong even when it was published because of that atapi.flp bogon. atapi.flp died way back in the 2.1.5 days. I'd suggest buying ``The Complete FreeBSD, 2nd Edition'' from Walnut Creek and bring yourself up to date document-wise :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message