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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!news1.best.com!idiom.com!not-for-mail From: jsi@idiom.com (Michael Craft) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: New FreeBSD user with problems Date: 31 Mar 1997 17:09:47 -0800 Organization: JSI Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5hpn8r$6ip@idiom.com> References: <5hn1o1$b4b@srv4-poa.nutecnet.com.br> <5ho851$koc@idiom.com> <5horcu$e40@chronicle.concentric.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: idiom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38197 > : I've got the same problem here; for some reason the IDE cdrom > : support was removed from the 2.1.7 and 2.2 distributions. > > Are you sure about that? In the versions I've used, you had to rebuild > the kernel, but once that was done, you had full IDE cdrom support. > > I'm going to order 2.2.x just as soon as Walnut Creek has it available > on cdrom, and I'd sure hate to find out that atapi support is missing. I've already ordered the new release but it hasn't arrived in the mail yet. I didn't think of it, but I could create a FAT partition to install FreeBSD from, reconfiguring and compiling the kernel to accept ATAPI, creating a new boot disk, and reinstalling to a dedicated hard disk from the ATAPI cdrom. It still seems odd that FreeBSD comes with minicom but without the Zmodem package, or any other package to download with.