From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 26 0:50:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 585D937B401 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 00:50:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from spf1.us.outblaze.com (205-158-62-139.outblaze.com [205.158.62.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CC66243F13 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 00:50:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from morpheus_2606@linuxmail.org) Received: (qmail 18191 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2003 08:50:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (205.158.62.68) by spf1.us.outblaze.com with QMQP; 26 Jan 2003 08:50:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 50066 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2003 08:50:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ws5-2.us4.outblaze.com) (205.158.62.132) by 205-158-62-153.outblaze.com with SMTP; 26 Jan 2003 08:50:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 15863 invoked by uid 1001); 26 Jan 2003 08:50:14 -0000 Message-ID: <20030126085014.15862.qmail@linuxmail.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.41 (Entity 5.404) Received: from [198.142.52.28] by ws5-2.us4.outblaze.com with http for morpheus_2606@linuxmail.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 16:50:14 +0800 From: "Damien U" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 16:50:14 +0800 Subject: Installing from CDROM, errors X-Originating-Ip: 198.142.52.28 X-Originating-Server: ws5-2.us4.outblaze.com Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I will firstly say that although I am not experienced with freeBSD, I have been using Linux for some time. I obtained the first ISO in the set for FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE last saturday, here are the problems I have been experiencing whilst attempting to install it. 1) Keyboard not responsive once kernel boots. I have a Diamond Touch Keyboard (PS/2). Works okay in the bootloader, but as soon as the kernel boots I have no keyboard, hence I cannot proceed with installation. I fixed this by setting one of the variables in the bootloader: set hints.atkbd.flags=0x0 (instead of 0x1). I got this from one of the bug reports as far back as FreeBSD 4.1, one of the people mentioned Diamond Touch Keyboards were affected by this bug. I do not know why this is the case as Linux and windows both have no trouble with this keyboard. 2) Cannot create partition for FreeBSD I can create a "slice" for freeBSD in fdisk, but it calls the partition "X". When I go to commit the changes to hard drive and start the install, freeBSD complains that it cannot find "/dev/X". I have found no way to correct the name in fdisk. Here is my partition table as reported by cfdisk under linux: Name Part Type FS Type Size (MB) ------------------------------------------ hda1 Primary NTFS 20974.47 hda2 Primary Ext3 10487.24 hda3 Primary Linux Swap 205.64 hda5 Logical FAT32 10511.91 hda6 Logical Reiserfs 10692.87 hda7 Logical Reiserfs 10001.95 Logical Free Space 17149.71 The operating systems I have on here already are Red Hat 8.0, Mandrake 9.0, Debian 3.0, Windows 2000. In the freeBSD install I try to create a primary partition of 5000MB in the free space, all seems well except for it calling the partition "X". The following are my computer specs: AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.4GHz MSI VIA K7T266 Motherboard, 512MB DDR RAM Diamond Touch PS/2 Keyboard Microsoft Intellieye Optical Mouse USB (plugged in with PS/2 adapter) Seagate Barracuda 80GB 7200RPM IDE HDD Acer 16x10x40 CDRW (the cd drive im installing from) Pioneer 16x DVD-ROM (slave) SB Live, Geforce3 I am only a freeBSD newbie, so I will be trying 4.7 soon. I thought that I should report these problems so that they can be fixed in revisions of 5.0. Thanks! Damien -- ______________________________________________ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message