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From: othman@oasys.pc.my (Othman Ahmad)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: installing
Message-ID: <8ek9Dc2w165w@oasys.pc.my>
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 93 11:00:18 +800
References: <2964323963.1.p00181@psilink.com>
Organization: Telekom Malaysia, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
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"Jim Moser" <p00181@psilink.com> writes:
> Recently bought the Infomagic UNIX CDROM with 386BSD and LINUX. I
> realized after reading the documentation that my CDROM drive is not
> supported. It appears only SCSI drives are supported and only those
> with the Adaptec 1542 interface. Thus the Tiny BSD boot disk cannot
> access the CDROM to install the OS. Therefore I can either get a new CDROM
> drive or order 386BSD on floppies, unless there is some way to get the
> binaries off the CDROM under DOS to the hard drive and then install from
You should be able to do that archived versions are stored on CDROM.
Unfortunately my Yggst... Linux CDROM from Walnut Creek does not come with
one. Only a boot disk binary image.
> that point. First question is "What is the most economical CDROM drive
> that is supported by 386BSD?". The second question is "From whom can I order
MItsumi and I'm seriously buying one but I believe FreeBSD supports it, but
not my 386bsd.
> binaries on floppy disk?" Any help out there?
Just copy from yor CDROM to floppy using DOS and use mtools to copy it to
your 386bsd fs.
SABAH is HEAVEN. Beautiful islands, mountains and jungles are next to 5 star
hotels. There are no natural and very few man-made disasters,
BUT for how long will it last?
Disclaimer: I only speak for myself