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From: delozier@condor.mcs.kent.edu (Greg Delozier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Use of NEC SCSI for CD-ROM under 386bsd?
Date: 13 Jul 1993 15:10:13 GMT
Organization: Kent State University
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We're trying to install 386bsd from a CD-ROM containing the 386bsd
distribution and have run into a problem: Once the base 386 system
has been installed from the DOS floppy images (bin01, etc...) the
resulting system won't use the CD-ROM drive to get the unix files
on it that contain X, gcc, etc. 

We've noted that the CD-ROM's SCSI card only seems to support addresses
0X340 & 0X350, presumably to avoid conflict with the (nonexistent) hard
drive SCSI card generally found at address 0x330. 

Any suggestions? I have noted the NetBSD info sheet discusses an 'auto-
magical' configuration of SCSI CD-ROMs, but I'd hate to download that
whole distribution (time & $$) when I've got a perfectly good bsd+patchkit
on this CD-ROM.

I hate to bring this up, but the CD-ROM also has Linux on it. Will this
leave me in the same predicament? Any suggestions?

-greg
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Greg DeLozier/Senior Scientific Analyst/Loral Defense Systems