From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 11 19:28:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA21858 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 19:28:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from io.org (io.org [198.133.36.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA21850 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 19:28:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 486-hot-rod.net4.io.org (486-hot-rod.net4.io.org [199.166.239.214]) by io.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA05903 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 22:28:06 -0400 Message-ID: <31E5B838.1177@io.org> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 22:28:08 -0400 From: Jim Amy Organization: Personal X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD CD Installation X-URL: http://www.ca.freebsd.org/support.html Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greetings, I'm a recent purchaser of the FreeBSD 2.1 from Walnut Creek CD-ROM. It turns out that installing FreeBSD is far more difficult and involved than I had anticipated. I have a few questions I hope you can help me with. 1. On page 26 of the Running FreeBSD manual it says I need to jumper my CD-ROM as a slave device. My CD is the only device on my secondary IDE (ATAPI) interface and when I jumper it as a slave device the CD-ROM drivers will not accept a slave without a master. In the process my CD-ROM drivers defaulted back to real device drivers and I had to reload Windows 95 to get the CD-ROM as well as my IDE Windows 95 drivers back. Is it necessary to jumper the CD as a slave device and if so, how can I do that without also having a master? 2. The other issue I did not realize when I ordered FreeBSD is the need to load it in a partition within the first 500 MB of disk space (or 1024 cylinders). Is this always the case with EIDE drives? I am using a Western Digital AC31200 1.2MB HD. Your advice is greatly appreciated. Jim jimamy@io.org -- ************************************************************************* Jim Amy jimamy@io.org To know life's purpose, http://www.io.org/~jimamy/ We must know life's Creator! Fax: (905) 640-2561 *************************************************************************