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From: "Jim Moser" <p00181@psilink.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: installing
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 93 23:29:04 -0600
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Recently bought the Infomagic UNIX CDROM with 386BSD and LINUX. I 
realized after reading the documentation that my CDROM drive is not
supported. It appears only SCSI drives are supported and only those
with the Adaptec 1542 interface. Thus the Tiny BSD boot disk cannot
access the CDROM to install the OS. Therefore I can either get a new CDROM
drive or order 386BSD on floppies, unless there is some way to get the 
binaries off the CDROM under DOS to the hard drive and then install from
that point. First question is "What is the most economical CDROM drive
that is supported by 386BSD?". The second question is "From whom can I order
binaries on floppy disk?" Any help out there?