Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 18:05:44 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: "E. Hakan Duran" <hakan_duran@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Goldstar CD-Rom Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912071759130.4557-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <19991208000940.60179.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, E. Hakan Duran wrote: please see: http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html (wrap lines at 70 characters) > Hi, > > I am an experienced user of DOS/Windows 9x, in a intel pentium-II > 300 machine. I have 2 hard disk drives 4.3 GB and 540 MB, respectively > and a Goldstar CD-ROM drive. Since my CD-ROM drive was not recognized > by Free-BSD, I copied it to my larger hard disk and completed the > installation from there (2 OS [DOS+FreeBSD]simultaneous). I am > currently reading documents regarding the problem of recognization > of ATAPI CD-ROMs but I could not make my way, yet. I have a couple > of questions for the dedicated helpers: > > 1. Can I still make the system recognize my CD-ROM drive? If yes, how? I really can't say, there are known problems when the CDrom is in certain positions on the IDE bus, I would suggest shuffling it around to other places, FreeBSD particularly hates IDE CDroms on the second IDE channel set as a slave. > 2. First, I dedicate my 540 MB hard disk completely to FreeBSD, > but than I had problems with my Wn 98; it could not recognize it > as a hard disk but an unreadable CD-ROM device instead. This > resulted in a serious fall in Win98 performence since every explorer > function resulted in a search for an unexistent CD-ROM. Then I > partitioned that dirve in a way that allowed 4 MBs for DOS an rest > for free BSD. Everything seems to work well now. Any comments on > this issue will be appreciated. This is a windows problem, windows is buggy, what do you expect? :) > 3. It may sound stupid but I am really new to Unix environment, > so would you please recommend me a way to list occupied/empty space > on each drive? I really can not predict to what percentage space > I spared for freeBSD. try using 'df' for more options try "man df". the command "man -k space" lists 'df(1) - display free disk space' as the first manual page to check, try using "man -k <keyword>" to find other manual pages. good luck and welcome aboard! -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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