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From: jsi@idiom.com (Michael Craft)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: New FreeBSD user with problems
Date: 5 Apr 1997 07:09:46 -0800
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> You need to recompile the kernel to get the IDE CD working. Remove the
> comment of the ATAPI CD in the file /src/i386/conf/GENERIC. Then recompile
> the kernel. THE CD should work-:-)

Done but no dice.  I've solved the problem with XCOPY onto a msdos
partition, so I could move on and forget about it.

> > > I'm a OS/2 user who wish to learn something about Unix, and so I bought
> > > the 2.1.7 version of FreeBSD, and I installed it here, but I have some
> > > questions, and ask for anyone's help.
> > > 
> > > 1) I'm using a Creative 8x CD-ROM attached to my mother-board IDE (not
> > > on SB). Is that possible to make it recognizable by the OS?
> > 
> > I've got the same problem here; for some reason the IDE cdrom
> > support was removed from the 2.1.7 and 2.2 distributions.