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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.uoregon.edu!waikato!comp.vuw.ac.nz!news.eds.co.nz!usenet From: Marc Priebee <Marc.Priebee@nz.eds.com> Subject: Re: Installation from CD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: usenet@nz.eds.com (Usenet News Admin) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: EDS (New Zealand) Limited Message-ID: <322C958B.446B9B3D@nz.eds.com> References: <50dt76$mo_001@ppp.hooked.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: gypsy.comms.nz.eds.com Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 20:31:07 GMT Lines: 35 dabrin wrote: > > I have read the recent postings about installing from CD, and they are > similar problems to mine but no one has solutions yet. I have FreeBSD 2.1.5 > and an ATAPI CD drive (an oldie, not sure which make, 2x speed). The > documentation says to use a floppy boot with the atapi.flp image. The only > image file of this type that I can find belongs to the 2.1.0 release, and it > can't find the CD drive either. Is this problem for real? Nothing can find I don't know about the 2.1.5 one, (but I don't recall any mention of this being changed from 2.1 to 2.1.5 in the announcement) but certainly with 2.1, the atapi.flp boot disk could ONLY find your CD drive if it was the PRIMARY DISK on an IDE controller. It could not find a CD which was the secondary disk on the IDE controller. > the CD drive. The kernal configuration options cause my eyes to glaze over. > Do I really have to figure out an interrupt handler for the CD drive, or is > there an actual atapi.flp file under the rug somewhere? On my PC I copied the bits required for a basic install to a DOS partition, and installed from that, and then recompiled the kernel to include atapi CD support. (Coz I only had the one IDE controller) E-Mail me if you'd like a copy of the kernel > > - David -- Marc Priebee Ph. 64 4 474-5857 Systems Engineer (Communications) Fax. 64 4 495-0473 EDS (New Zealand) Limited Email. Marc.Priebee@nz.eds.com