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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.pbi.net!news5.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: neosoft.users.freebsd,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Free BSD trouble Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:34:23 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 38 Message-ID: <32F1AE8F.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> References: <32EAF919.17A0@neosoft.com> <5cflae$gal@bonkers.taronga.com> <5cpfsk$fqk@uuneo.neosoft.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 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34781 Conrad Sabatier wrote: > o <sigh> As usual, the same as with every previous version of FreeBSD I've > used (since 2.1.0), still refuses to recognize the same IDE CD-ROM drive No serious changes in the IDE CDROM driver were made until 2.2. I can't say for sure that 2.2R will support your IDE CDROM, but it certainly supports more of them than 2.1.6. > o Will not startup the install process from CD-ROM under DOS as described in Turn off any memory manager, if you're running one. I should make this clearer in the docs. > o Will not even do the install from a DOS partition (distribution Fixed in 2.2R > o Oh, and of course, my sound card *still* didn't work, either. I have no idea what kind of sound card you have, so no comment is possible. > Frankly, I find the latest release a major letdown. And I do mean *major*. *Shrug*. I'm sorry you feel that way, but I also know that you can't make everyone happy and that, in fact, it could probably be argued that a statistically significant percentage of installations will always fail simply due to slippage in hardware specs and transient bugs in the system. You, Conrad Sabatier, are now a member of that statistical category and there's not a darn thing I can do about it. If you haven't already requested a refund from Walnut Creek CDROM, that's certainly one avenue of compensation you can and should pursue. If a customer is not happy with a product, WC would prefer to simply refund their money (nor does the product have to be returned by the customer - that's simply extra work for both parties). -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project