From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 1 04:53:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA01258 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 04:53:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from out5.ibm.net (out5.ibm.net [165.87.194.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA01246 for ; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 04:53:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mginanjar@usa.net) Received: from safira (slip202-135-134-119.bd.id.ibm.net [202.135.134.119]) by out5.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA76830; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 12:52:49 GMT Message-Id: X-Sender: mginanjar@pop.netaddress.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 09:44:06 +0700 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Mulz Subject: Re: help! I can't install 2.2.5 to my SCSI drive Cc: SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:21 AM 10/30/98 -0500, Steve Friedrich wrote: >On Fri, 30 Oct 1998 09:09:13 +0700, Mulz wrote: > [cut] > >The freebsd handbook, http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook9.html#9 >only lists the Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers. And if >you didn't know enough about FreeBSD to check the handbook, then you >are not a good candidate to run 3.0R. 3.0R doesn't support some of the >older SCSI that 2.2.7 does. You should buy a newer SCSI card. You >don't need an expensive, whiz-bang one, just one that supports booting. >Note that Adaptec sells several models that you CAN'T boot from. They >like to offer these to OEMs who bundle them with CDwriters, removable >media drives, like Jaz, SparQ, SyJet, or SCSI scanners. >Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. My card does have BIOS and it supports booting. I've checked the handbook and list archive but I was thinking that even my card is not listed in the handbook perhaps with an 'undocumented' modification to the bootdisk I can get 2.2.5 to install. Well, I guess I have to stick with this Win98 for a while longer ... Mulz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message