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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.cais.net!peer.news.xara.net!xara.net!SoNet!innotts.co.uk!seriald2d.innotts.co.uk!user From: robmel@nadt.org.uk (Robin Melville) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP CDROM INSTALL !!! Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 00:08:26 +0000 Organization: Nottingham Alcohol & Drug Team Lines: 39 Message-ID: <robmel-110396000826@seriald2d.innotts.co.uk> References: <4hiia5$s5o@news.xmission.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: seriald2d.innotts.co.uk In article <4hiia5$s5o@news.xmission.com>, "Andrzej M. J." <andreas@xmission.com> wrote: > Hi, > I did buy a few days ago "FreeBSD 2.1" from 'Walnut Creek' > on CDROM. > I have on my system (486DX/4 120, 20MB RAM, 2 EIDE HD, SVGA) > "NEC MultiSpin 4V" CDROM drive installed on secondary EIDE > controller, it's work propertly with MSDOS, WIN'95, WIN-NT > and LINUX. > When I try install FreeBSD, the kernel recognize my secondary > controler, but don't recognize my CDROM drive (the CD is > inside the drive). > I know, I could install from one of FAT partitions, but I don't > have there room for copy FreeBSD instalation files and I don't > have a tape drive for make big backup from my files what I > could temporary remove. > > Please give me some suggestions, I have 0 expirience with > FreeBSD. > > Thanks, Andre You will need to copy atapi.flp to a floppy disk and boot from there. You should do this under dos using the rawrite.exe utility which is in the Tools directory. I've got this to work fine with a similar machine. Regards, Robin. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Melville, Addiction Information Services Nottingham Alcohol & Drug Team +------------------------------------+ Tel: +44 (0)115 952 9478 | As Huxley said -- everbody needs a | Fax: +44 (0)115 952 9421 | holiday from reality now and then. | work: robmel@nadt.org.uk | But a holiday's not a holiday if | home: robmel@innotts.co.uk | you're having it all the time... | --------------------------------+------------------------------------+