From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 12 14:22:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA00815 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 14:22:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA00783 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 14:21:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA12973; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 22:20:26 GMT Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 22:20:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: geoffb@demon.net cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEC Multia support In-Reply-To: <199811121738.RAA04974@gti.noc.demon.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Geoff Buckingham wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Geoff Buckingham wrote: > > > > > > > > How well are the onboard IDE/floppy/ethernet of the Multia supported in > > > current at the moment? > > > > Ethernet should work. Floppy will work when I find time to port the > > floppy driver over. IDE will probably have to wait until the new atapi > > code is ready. > > > > Given the above is my best route to installing FreeBSD to start with > NetBSD and migrate? If you have SCSI disks, then the best route is to install using the floppy images from the regular snapshots. We can boot from a floppy without problems. There isn't a floppy driver to use after boot yet though. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message