From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 21 21:47:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gargoyle.apana.org.au (gargoyle-xl0.apana.org.au [210.215.3.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAF9937C182 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 21:47:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by gargoyle.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA20482; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 14:47:13 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner.apana.org.au(203.3.126.132), claiming to be "ROADRUNNER" via SMTP by gargoyle.apana.org.au, id smtpdo20480; Thu Jun 22 14:47:07 2000 Message-ID: <000501bfdc05$28463460$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> From: "Doug Young" To: "The Clark Family" Cc: References: Subject: Re: how to boot from DPT SCSI host adaptor ?? Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 14:48:43 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Some nice person from the list could cut you a custom boot floppy. Ahhhhhhh ..... is that how its supposed to be done ?? I've just fired the AST box up a few minutes ago & trying FTP install . The DPT card isn't listed in the regular kernel config menu so I'm leaving all the SCSI adaptors in so hopefully one will work in some sort of fashion until I can try messing with the kernel. Its found the NIC and looking for ftp.freebsd.org now, so it will be verrrrrrrrrrry interesting to see if I can fix the kernel before re-booting > > I haven't done so myself, but if no one else offers to help, let me > know. I can try. > > [RC] > > On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Doug Young wrote: > > > I'm trying to install 4.0 RELEASE in an AST Premium SE 4/50d fitted with > > a DPT SCSI host adaptor. This system is SCSI only (hard drives & CD-ROM) > > ..... there doesn't appear to be any provision for IDE drives. I'm aware > > that the > > generic kernel doesn't support this thing (attempts to install stall when > > its looking > > for drives), but DPT cards are listed in both generic & lint files .... so > > obviously > > there's meant to be some sort of support for them. The problem as I see it > > is > > essentially a "chicken & egg" one .................. *exactly* how does one > > go about > > installing the operating system in the first place so that there's a kernel > > source > > available to edit & compile ?? > > > > I guess if DPT support could be somehow configured into the boot floppies > > then at least install would be able to see the hard drives & CD-ROM, but > > in the absence of any info on that I can't imagine where to start. Another > > idea > > is maybe try installing via FTP, then the source is on the hard drive & > > maybe > > once DPT support is compiled in it might be OK on re-booting. > > > > Comments / suggestions / advice anyone ?? > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message