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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!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!oksennus.binary.net!Radio-MSU.net!Gamma.RU!srcc!newsfeed.sovam.com!sovam!europa.clark.net!newsfeed.gte.net!news From: lee@wakky.dyn.ml.org (Lee Cremeans) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Floppy Utility for ATAPI CD-ROM Setup Date: 8 Jul 1997 01:05:24 GMT Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS Lines: 15 Message-ID: <5ps3ok$2po$1@news9.gte.net> References: <33BD5CCF.25FDE0BF@dca.net> Reply-To: hcremean@vt.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: 1cust39.max3.washington2.dc.ms.uu.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Auth: D41C9F560186849250CF8491 X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44067 In article <33BD5CCF.25FDE0BF@dca.net>, Will Kelly <wkelly@dca.net> writes: > I'm doing my first every FreeBSD install on my 2nd PC. The systems is a > Pentium 75 with a Creative Labs IDE CD-ROM plugged into the second IDE > channel on the mother board. I tried making a boot floppy to install > the software from the CD, but of course the CD is not found. What version of FreeBSD is this? IDE/ATAPI support was experimental and quite flaky in 2.1.x, and nonexistent in 2.0.5. -- Lee C. -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet #watertower)|A! JW223 "People are idiots who deserve to be mocked."--Dogbert|YWD+++i P&B+++ SL+++^i My home page:http://wakky.dyn.ml.org/~lee | MD+++r P+ I++ Di "Whoa, dumber than advertised!" | $++ E5/10/70/3c/73ac Ee34/1/36 H2 PonPippi