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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!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!165.87.194.248!news-m01.ny.us.ibm.net!news.ibm.net!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!lantana.singnet.com.sg!newsfeed.singnet.com.sg!chenab.lums.edu.pk!ravi.lums.edu.pk!b98045 From: Nabil Hassan Mustafa <b98045@ravi.lums.edu.pk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New FreeBSD user with problems Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 10:25:45 +0500 Organization: Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan Lines: 29 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970402102436.21303B-100000@ravi.lums.edu.pk> References: <5hn1o1$b4b@srv4-poa.nutecnet.com.br> <5ho851$koc@idiom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ravi.lums.edu.pk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Michael Craft <jsi@idiom.com> In-Reply-To: <5ho851$koc@idiom.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38249 You need to recompile the kernel to get the IDE CD working. Remove the comment of the ATAPI CD in the file /src/i386/conf/GENERIC. Then recompile the kernel. THE CD should work-:-) Nabil Hassan Mustafa Lahore University of Management Sciences ------------------------------------------------------------------- When someone says it's the principle, not the money, the money is the principle. ------------------------------------------------------------------- email : b98045@lums.edu.pk URL : http://www.lums.edu.pk/~b98045 On 31 Mar 1997, Michael Craft wrote: > > I'm a OS/2 user who wish to learn something about Unix, and so I bought > > the 2.1.7 version of FreeBSD, and I installed it here, but I have some > > questions, and ask for anyone's help. > > > > 1) I'm using a Creative 8x CD-ROM attached to my mother-board IDE (not > > on SB). Is that possible to make it recognizable by the OS? > > 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. > > >