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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!204.179.98.2!news.visigenic.com!news From: Tim O'Neil <toneil@visigenic.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD 2.1.6 from IDE CD-ROM??? Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 12:18:06 +0000 Organization: Visigenic Software, Inc. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <32FF11FE.4689@visigenic.com> References: <01bc0d33$31600200$0b628bd0@dchan> <01bc0e25$2de9b100$0801a8c0@teds.portsoft.com> Reply-To: toneil@visigenic.com NNTP-Posting-Host: vsi48.visigenic.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; U) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35443 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > [NOTE: If you are running FreeBSD 2.1-RELEASE and have an IDE CDROM, use > > the inst_ide.bat or atapiflp.bat batch files instead]. > > where is "inst_ide.bat" and "atapiflp.bat" ? > > Thanks a lot! I see them right here in root of disc a. When I made the conscious descision to make myself a i86 unix system, first thing I did was buy a cdrom, (in my case I grabbed freeBSD becuase I had seen the name before) and study it carefully for about a month. Then I got out a peice of paper and wrote down what parts I had to get, I bought the parts to fit the operating system, not grab what junk I had laying around. That works for windows, and that can be a good thing, but it probably won't work too well for freebsd (or linux). One (of several conclusions) I came to was that I was better off with a scsi based system. I didn't even worry about ide drives, atapi, plug and play, etc. Boy was I right. I stayed away from SIIG host adapters and Sony (and sound blaster) cd roms and went adaptec and mistumi and seagate drives and guess what; After putting it all together, installing dos so I could have a base os for the install, inserting the rom into the drive, and typing "install" at my cdrom prompt, *bam* I was recompiling the kernal about 1/2 hour (or so) later. NO PROBLEMS.