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From: pascal@ramoth.xs4all.nl (Pascal van Dam)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Unable to install from CD
Date: 12 Jul 1995 22:04:03 GMT
Organization: Blue Horizon Software
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David Moore (euromall@internet-eireann.ie) wrote:
: 
: It looks like Linux doesn't support IDE CD drives either?
: So can anyone please tell me if there is any way around this.
: 
: No?
: 
: 

Linux does support ATAPI/IDE cdrom drives for a mighty long time.
(kernel 1.1.60 and so on... now 1.3.9)

Hope this helps!

Pascal

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