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From: loewis@cs.tu-berlin.de (Martin v.Loewis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ATAPI CD problems
Date: 27 Jun 1996 21:53:36 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In article <Pine.3.91.960626170747.909B-100000@hurricane.cs.odu.edu>,
Jamie Bowden  <bowden@cs.odu.edu> wrote:
>You can from dos, in the cdrom root dir type 'inst_ide' and boot an atapi 
>kernel that will use an atapi cdrom on the secondary controller (as 
>master or slave).  I used this to build a friends box.  

It did exactly that, and it did *not* recognize my CD-ROM (on a CMD 640A PCI
controller). I ended up copying the 'bin' file to the hard disk, then the
source files, then rebuilding the kernel, then installing the rest...

Martin