Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 17:48:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Kjell-=?iso-8859-1?Q?=C5ke Ahlin <Kjell-Ake.Ahlin@vfak.slu.se> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD cannot get started Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960728174609.381I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <31ED24B8.DED@vfak.slu.se>
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On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, Kjell-=?iso-8859-1?Q?=C5ke Ahlin wrote: > I would like to know if it is possible to get the latest 2.1.5-release of FreeBSD from > Walnut Creek CDROM - or should I go for a 2.2-SNAP-release instead? Do you think it > could solve my problem? Or could a later release of a boot floppy do the trick? 2.1.5 hasn't come back from the press yet, but it should shortly. In the meantime you can download it from ftp.freebsd.org. 2.2-SNAPs are built from -current; don't use them unless you need them. > I donīt seem to get anywhere trying to install the 2.1.0-release of FreeBSD, which I got > on a CD from Walnut Creek this spring. The boot disk seems to recognize the NCR 53C810 > PCI SCSI-controller (PCI-SC200-card) on the ASUSTeK P55SP4-motherboard (latest BIOS > version) and also the two HP Surestore SCSI-harddisks (C3724, 1 GB and C3725, 2 GB)as > well as the Iomega Jaz-drive (1 GB) and the Toshiba CD-player (XM-3701B). > > BUT: In the installation program I canīt access anything but the Jaz-disk (sd2 - only a > partition table of this is presented, no disk choices before that), although I have been > able to boot and install WIN95, OS/2 Warp 3 and Win-NT 3.51 from primary partitions on > sd0 and sd1 without any problems. I use the OS/2 Boot Manager. So you are trying to install to the Jaz drive? Is it found in the boot probe on startup? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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