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From: "G. Jason Middleton" <gmiddl1@gl.umbc.edu>
To: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
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Subject: Re: installing BSD on scsi drives
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The only problem is, is that it will not read the kernel from the book
disk!  CD or floppy, I had this problem in another system one time but did
not know how to fix it.  The boot disks work fine on other machines.

Jason

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Joe Clarke wrote:

> The typical boot CD or floppies support a number of SCSI controllers.
> SCSI harddrives will be named daX (e.g. da0 for the first SCSI drive).
> Simply use the drive you wish as the install target.
>
> If you encounter a problem booting your install disk, please resend the
> output of the dmesg boot log that scrolls out on the screen.  During
> install, you can hit scroll lock, then page up to view this text after
> FreeBSD has entered sysinstall.
>
> Joe Clarke
>
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, G. Jason Middleton wrote:
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> > How do i do about doing this?  Are there special disks for booting into
> > setup?
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