Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 15:52:31 +1100 From: Phillip Musumeci <phillip@pm.cse.rmit.edu.au> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Some possibly useful suggestions Message-ID: <199512140452.PAA01388@pm.cse.rmit.EDU.AU>
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Hi, I think FBSD2.1 has been quite a good release. Here are a few suggestions/comments about the FreeBSD-2.1 installation: 1) section 2.5.2 of INSTALL.TXT ------------------------------------------- Maybe we should have another special note saying that, if you are going to do your installation via ftp from a users account (and not ANONYMOUS ftp), then you should specify the userid and password by selecting the OPTIONS menu. I found I did not have this specified only *after* I had gone through entering all the setup information. 2) installation from a wangtek tape drive --------------------------------- I found that, even though my wangtek tape drive was correctly probed and recognised (after doing a "boot -c"), I did not seem to be able to tell the install procedure that I wanted to use /dev/rwt0. I am sorry but I didn't go back and check what was going on here. I don't think anything was broken --- I just couldn't see how to select rwt0 instead of whatever tape device the install system was trying to use. 3) file /sys/i386/conf/LINT ----------------------------------------------- The LINT file is where I go to see how to add lines to my config file. The current section for audio has a comment that appears incorrect to me e.g. # # Beware! The addresses specified below are also hard-coded in # i386/isa/sound/sound_config.h. If you change the values here, you # must also change the values in the include file. # When you look in file sound_config.h, you find that the author has carefully allowed us to override their defaults via an options statement. It would be good if the following example was added to LINT. ### ### Example of using a sound blaster at irq other than 7. ### Look in file i386/isa/sound/sound_config.h and observe that the default ### IRQ setting can be overriden by specifying SBC_IRQ e.g. ### #device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 10 drq 1 vector sbintr #options "SBC_IRQ=10" # we really mean irq=10 for sound blaster pro Thanks, phillip ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr Phillip Musumeci __ /\ Postal Address: Telephone: / \/ \ Dept. of Computer Systems Engineering ++61 3 96605317(w1) / \ RMIT ++61 3 96605383(w2) / / GPO Box 2476V ++61 3 96605340(fax) \ __ / Melbourne VIC 3001. AUSTRALIA RMIT Building 87.2.15, `-' \*/ EMAIL: phillip@cse.rmit.edu.au 410 Elizabeth Street. . WWW: http://www.cse.rmit.edu.au/~rdspm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A good environment for the teaching of "modern" microprocessors? One where the students were conceived *before* the microprocessor. --pm
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