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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: EIDE CDROMS, Packages
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 17:53:25 -0800
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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femens@iquest.com wrote:
> There's been a lot of discussion about getting IDE CDROMS installed and problems
> with installing packages. My CDROM is an EIDE. Should I expect to access an EIDE
> (not IDE) drive with 2.1?

You should expect it to *maybe* work, as I would state for any manner of
[E]IDE CDROM drive, considering that the driver is ALPHA quality only
right now.

> I've read conflicting statements about packages. Assuming I could access the CDROM
> with my setup, should I be able to install Lynx,  the Apache web server and the X packages
> WITHOUT ftp to a remote site?

Yes.
-- 
	- Jordan Hubbard
	  President, FreeBSD Project