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From: burton@bsampley.vip.best.com (Burton Sampley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.6 and atapi.flp?
Date: 1 Feb 1997 04:19:56 GMT
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In article <5cttel$i5v@plains.nodak.edu>,
	tong@plains.nodak.edu (Veng-Ly Tong) writes:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I had received the 2.1.6 CD-ROM and the book that came with it.  In
> the installation, it said that IDE CD-ROMs should use the atapi.flp
> file instead of the boot.flp.  However, it is not there in the 
> FLOPPIES directory.  
> 
> Is this
> a. an oversight in the file inclusion
> b. an outdated book (for this part)
> c. all of the above
> d. none of the above 
> 
> Thanks.> 

I believe the correct answer is B.  The boot.flp should work, it did for me
:-) with a Sony CDU311 8X IDE CDROM. 

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Burton Sampley
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