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From: Jim Amy <jimamy@io.org>
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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
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