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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!news.larc.nasa.gov!maui.cc.odu.edu!fog.cs.odu.edu!bowden From: Jamie Bowden <bowden@cs.odu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: (no subject) Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 00:14:32 -0400 Organization: Old Dominion University Lines: 21 Message-ID: <Pine.3.91.960522001239.4413A-100000@fog.cs.odu.edu> References: <4nt65i$cem@tbsnames.turner.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: fog.cs.odu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4nt65i$cem@tbsnames.turner.com> On 21 May 1996, Frederick Haab wrote: > I'm a new convert from Linux, have the FreeBSD CD at home and am getting > off to the same shakey start I had with Linux - it won't recognize my > Creative Labs IDE CDROM drive. I *could* copy important stuff, bits > at a time, to my smaller DOS HDD, but it's pretty full of useful things. > And I was hoping to not have to jump through the same hoops. Put your cdrom in the drive from dos (if you have win95, unload the gui, and 'reboot to dos' mode), then cd to your cdrom, and type 'inst_ide', and it should unload the dos kernel, and load the freebsd kernel right off the cd. you will need to do a custom install, and put the kernel sources on your hd during installation, since the genereic kernel doesn't have ide supprt compiled in by default. HTH Jamie I have my finger on the pulse of the planet.