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Date:      Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:47:19 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Tom Field <tom@nautilus.eng.orgella.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATAPI IDE CDROM Drives
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980210194618.29893f-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.95.980210122039.1946A-100000@tlf.eng.orgella.com>

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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



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