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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!gatech!willis.cis.uab.edu!cs.utk.edu!cs!larson From: larson@cs.utk.edu (Chris Larson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: CD-Rom Drive not compatible? Date: 27 Jan 1996 06:32:48 GMT Organization: CS Labs, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Lines: 20 Message-ID: <LARSON.96Jan27013248@cetus5a.cs.utk.edu> References: <4duakt$76r@news.ee.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: cetus5a.cs.utk.edu In-reply-to: tparker@greenapple.com's message of 21 Jan 1996 21:19:25 GMT In article <4duakt$76r@news.ee.net> tparker@greenapple.com (Tim Parker) writes: :> :>I am new to this group and the program FreeBSD. I just bought the CD-Rom from :>Walnut Creek of 2.0.5 and am having trouble installing it. I realize that it :>only works with certain types according to the back of the case. I have a :>Wearnes Technolgy "Beethoven" drive cdd-110. Does anyone know if there is a :>way to get it to accept this? I really don't want to have to change the cd :>drive right now [getting ready to do a motherboard upgrade first] Please email :>any suggestions [hopefully positive] to me. Thanks for the help :> :>Tim I've never heard of that type of Drive. It might work but my suggestion would be to copy the stuff you want to install to a DOS partition if you have one available. For now it'll probably get you up and running sooner. -- Chris Larson larson@cs.utk.edu Lab Assistant-Backups Computer Science Dept. University of Tennessee- Knoxville