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From: kientzle@netcom.com
Subject: Re: cdrom drives
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 07:53:15 GMT
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In article <824244733.18299@richsoft.demon.co.uk>,
<steve@richsoft.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Does anyone know what the differences are between the different CDROM
>drives that make the supported or not
Different interfaces require different drivers. So far, generic
SCSI, ATAPI/IDE, and a couple of special ones are supported.
The standard work-around is to split your hard disk (many folks
keep a DOS partition anyway, so this is no major burden), and
use DOS to copy data from the CD to the hard disk. The standard
install works just fine from a DOS partition.
The DOS partition only needs to be 20 meg or so to do this quite
comfortably. I've installed FreeBSD a couple of times from
non-supported CDROM's using exactly this approach.
- Tim