From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 11 22:06:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA00567 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 22:06:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ime.net (ime.net [204.97.248.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA00532 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 22:05:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kimiko.tcguy.net (buxton-15.ime.net [206.231.148.144]) by ime.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id BAA04822; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 01:04:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <31E5DCEF.3B64@ime.net> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 01:04:47 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler Reply-To: tcg@ime.net Organization: The Computer Guy X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Amy CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD CD Installation References: <31E5B838.1177@io.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848