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Date:      Mon, 27 Nov 95 16:42:29 PST
From:      kshuff@fast.net
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Installation problems
Message-ID:  <Chameleon.951127172209.kshuff@kshuff.fast.net>

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Hello,

   I am trying to install FreeBSD 2.1.0 on my system, and I'm running into 
problems. Maybee you can help.

   A little information about my system and how its configured. Im running 
an American Megatrend motherboard with an Intel 486dx2 50 processor. The 
system has 8 meg of ram, a VL-41 VGA VL-Bus video accelerator that uses the 
S-3 86C801/805 enhanced VGA bios and drivers. My I/O controller is a 
PTI-255W VL-Bus card that uses the WinBond chipset. The controller supports 
two floppies and the address is configured for 3F0-3F7, supports 4 IDE 
hard drives configures for 170-IF0 port. The serial port are COM1 address 
3F8H, COM2 address 2F8H and LPT1 address 378H  IRQ7 (all standard).

   Im using a serial mouse through COM1 IRQ4, an Intel modem through COM2 
IRQ3, printer on LPT1 IRQ7, floppy disk on IRQ6, hard disk on IRQ14, and a 
Sound Blaster on IRQ5.

   I am running two hard drives slaved together off the primary port of the 
controller card. One is a Maxtor 540m ide as master, and the other is a 
Seagate 125m ide as slave. Also I am using a Sony IDE CD-Rom running on the 
secondary port of the controller. The maxtor 540 is my DOS disk and the 
Seagate 125 is formatted with dos and is empty at the moment. I would like 
to install FreeBSD on the second hard drive.

   The problem I am running into is when I boot FreeBSD from the boot 
floppy, it recognizes the maxtor 540 drive as wd0, but it does not find the 
seagate 125 drive. I would like to allocate that drive for FreeBSD only. All 
my BSD distributions are on the maxtor drive. BSD will boot and I get the 
menu, but when I go to the partioner theirs only one drive available.

   Any advice would greatly be appreciated, any if you require further 
information please let me know.




-Keith S. Huff
 
 kshuff@fast.net







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