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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.tacom.army.mil!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: EIDE CDROMS, Packages Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 17:53:25 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 17 Message-ID: <311AA915.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <4f7t4p$1ku@polo.iquest.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: femens@iquest.com femens@iquest.com wrote: > There's been a lot of discussion about getting IDE CDROMS installed and problems > with installing packages. My CDROM is an EIDE. Should I expect to access an EIDE > (not IDE) drive with 2.1? You should expect it to *maybe* work, as I would state for any manner of [E]IDE CDROM drive, considering that the driver is ALPHA quality only right now. > I've read conflicting statements about packages. Assuming I could access the CDROM > with my setup, should I be able to install Lynx, the Apache web server and the X packages > WITHOUT ftp to a remote site? Yes. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project