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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IDE CDROM Installation question
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From: kientzle@netcom.com
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 21:06:19 GMT
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In article <4f07ab$v0n@marple.umd.edu>,
Christopher <campagna@marple.umd.edu> wrote:
>I am installing Freebsd v. 2.0.5 on my DX66 with a 120 meg HD, and a
>Toshiba IDE CDROM , both attatched to a DTC EIDE controller. Teh The HD
>is an port one and the CDROM is on port 2 of the controller card.
First, FreeBSD 2.0.5 does not support IDE CDROM drives as shipped.
There were (are?) experimental versions of the IDE CDROM support that
you could add to the FreeBSD 2.0.5 kernel, but to do that, you need
to have an already completely installed and working FreeBSD 2.0.5
system.
You could get the FreeBSD 2.1 system and install that instead, but
there were some problems with the way the provided kernel was
installed that prevented many people from installing directly
from IDE CDROM.
The standard way around this is to partition the hard disk into
a FreeBSD and DOS partition, use DOS to copy the needed files onto the
DOS partition and install from there, but with only 120megs, I
suspect you need to commit the entire drive to FreeBSD.
You might be able to install from floppy (copy the relevant files to
DOS floppies), but if you have any spare change, I suggest upgrading
your hard disk in any case. (I regularly see 1gig drives for under
$350 mail-order. Definitely worth considering.)
- Tim