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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!tezcat!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.1.5-RELEASE and ATAPI IDE CDROM Date: 15 Mar 1997 22:40:29 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5gf8gt$p8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5g9kne$elb@seralph9.essex.ac.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37121 tllau@sol9 (Lau T L) wrote: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE off the CD, but the kernel does > not seem to detect my IDE CD-ROM drive (Hitachi 7790, second IDE channel, > master). > > Any ideas? Don't use 2.1.5. If you wanna use the ATAPI CD, install 2.2 (still vaporware, but soon to be released). If you are for stability and bugfixes, chose 2.1.7 over 2.1.5. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)