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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!portal.gmu.edu!bneel From: bneel@site.gmu.edu (Brian T Neel (CS)) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: double UGH ide cdrom Date: 23 Oct 1995 03:07:07 GMT Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA Lines: 20 Message-ID: <46f0sr$fnd@portal.gmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: site.gmu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I recently purchased the walnut creek cdrom of 2.0.5 without knowing it didn't support ide cdrom. Since my ide Dos partition is only 80 megs, I am unable to do a full install via the Dos partition...I assume bsd doesn't support my future domain 1680 scsi controller so I can't access my other drive. Anyways, I couldn't locate the atapi cdrom disk on freebsd.org, I figured I would use that boot disk...atapi.flp? ..to load the 2.0.5 distribution off the cdrom...failing that I figured I would load the distribution piece by piece off my 80 meg partition, but the install disk will not let me select individual portions without re-partitioning my HD with each install.. If anyone could tell me a work-around or at least where to find the atapi boot disk I would appreciate it.. btw - I plan on installing 2.0.5 fully, then 2.1 when the cdrom is available.