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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-in2.uu.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: CD-ROM Date: 12 Oct 1996 12:16:25 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <53o26p$8p4@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <01bbb616$ff426e20$209ce5c2@mfrissen> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E "Marco" <mfrissen@worldaccess.nl> wrote: > Since I have a IDE CD-rom, does it work with FreeBSD? I would like to jump > from Win95 to BSD (I love Unix), but I am not sure... Linux or BSD?? (Did I > offend anyone saying "Linux ??" :-) ). FreeBSD-current (or some 2.2-SNAP), Linux, FreeBSD 2.1.5 -- my order of preference. ;-) > I already ordered at Walnut Creek, so it will be BSD. Do I have to get me a > SCSI or can I stick to the IDE as long as it lasts?? If it works, it's okay. Chances for SCSI are better (read: 99 % of all SCSI drives work out of the box), in particular if it's release 2.1.5 you've ordered. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)