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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Unable to install from CD
Date: 5 Jul 1995 12:55:15 +0200
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David Moore <euromall@internet-eireann.ie> wrote:
>Okay I'll answer myself.
>BSD does not support IDE CD-Roms.

Just to encourage you: there has been written about an alpha version
of such a driver.  I have no idea how good/bad it behaves.

-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)