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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!ratty.wolfe.net!news.net99.net!news.millcomm.com!nistler From: nistler@millcomm.com (John Nistler ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Unable to install from CD Date: 5 Jul 1995 06:22:44 GMT Organization: Chaos, Inc. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3tdb3k$jbr@news.millcomm.com> References: <3t9qvn$eln@gate2.internet-eireann.ie> <3tb735$fs@gate2.internet-eireann.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: chaos.millcomm.com In article <3tb735$fs@gate2.internet-eireann.ie>, euromall@internet-eireann.ie (David Moore) writes: |> Okay I'll answer myself. |> BSD does not support IDE CD-Roms. It says so in the FAQ, or the ... |> It looks like Linux doesn't support IDE CD drives either? |> So can anyone please tell me if there is any way around this. |> If you have dos on the machine, you could boot up dos, copy one of the distribution to the dos partition. Then when you boot the installation floppy, install from the dos partition. -- John Nistler