Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 01:04:47 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net> To: Jim Amy <jimamy@io.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD CD Installation Message-ID: <31E5DCEF.3B64@ime.net> References: <31E5B838.1177@io.org>
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Jim Amy wrote:
>
> 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?
>
I *belive* That you need to put the cd as slave on your primary
controller.
I *belive* this is only true if you don't have a slave on your
primary controller.
I don't use ATAPI drives.
I'm sure somebody will correct me if I am wrong!
These answers should also be in the archives for they have been
asked and answered hundreds of times!
> 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.
>
Yes, This is a PC limitation not a FreeBSD limitation.
This does only apply to the _root_ ("/") partition though!
(The boot partition)
Create a small root so the whole thing is below 1024, Then create
the rest above!
I don't personally deal with dual booting, Somebody that does
will more then likly reply.
-Enjoy
Gary
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