From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 12 09:10:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA09571 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 09:10:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from odin.egate.net (odin.egate.net [207.34.206.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA09460 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 09:09:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lorax@entire.net) Received: from localhost (lorax@localhost) by odin.egate.net (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA05934 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 12:09:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 12:09:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Graham Bignell X-Sender: lorax@odin.egate.net To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: adaptec 78xx & 3c905TX <- Installing onto. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I want to install FreeBSD on a system (detailed below) that has an on-board adaptec 7800 family SCSI controller as well as a 3com 3C905TX NIC, I understand the 2.2.6 distribution does not support either but that I might have luck with one of the 3.0 snapshots. Could you place me on the path to an install floppy that would work? Can I build 3.0 over ftp? System Details: Asus P2B-LS board with onboard Adaptec 2940U controller (on boot I see a message about the 7890 BIOS.) 3Com 3C905TX 10/100 PCI NIC EIDE CDrom (on onboard eide) HP Colorado 24i internal DAT. (on 50pin scsi connector) 3 Quantum atlas II drives on the ultra 2 scsi connector. I guess an option is always to get a PCI scsi controller supported by the 2.2.6 distribution (as well as a different NIC), but I am sure there is another way... slow and painfull perhaps, but I am looking at it as an opportunity to have a bleeding edge kernel. Problems.. I don't have any running freebsd machines I can use to help build this one; I have solaris on a sparc and various microsoft products on another system (with the same type of NIC). Any suggestions? --- Graham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message