From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 4 21:51: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.idx.com.au (pop.idx.com.au [203.14.30.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C59D37B5C8 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 21:50:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from dannyh.freebsd.org (tntwc01-3-214.idx.com.au [203.166.3.214]) by pop.idx.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA23956; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 14:49:42 +1000 From: Danny To: Rahul Siddharthan , SoftGuit8@aol.com Subject: Re: Hard drive for Free BSD Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 14:54:23 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000704194243.A8135@physics.iisc.ernet.in> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00070514562303.00335@dannyh.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Solution :- - 1) You have to goto the BIOS and modify your HD settings to LBA ( I believe from memory) -2) You can either use the "which" or the "whereis" command to find stuff such as perl. eg>- whereis vi or which vi Looking forward to yourfeedback. dannyh dannyh@idx.com.au O n Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > I have tried to download the Free BSD or even a partition on my Maxtor > > 27.2 gig harddrive and had absolutely no luck..... > > What exactly are you trying to do? The default install proces? And > what error are you getting? Is the install failing, or is the > machine not booting afterwards, or is it something else? > > > 2) I am used to the "vi editor" But do not see that it is incorporated into > > the Free BSD ....am I wrong...or am I just not looking in the right places. > > It's there in the usual place, /usr/bin. > > Rahul. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- You are not authorized to use my email address for any purpose. This is a violation of my privacy. Remove my email address from your databases immediately. ---------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message