Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:42:55 -0700 From: Darren Gamble <Darren.Gamble@sjrb.ca> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: How to install 5.0 using a DAC960? Message-ID: <F2AC1E62AC3CBB49BB518BEA341532220DD009@shawmail02>
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Good day, It's been about a week since I posted this, so, I'd just like to ask one more time before I give up testing and just put Linux back on the machine. The machine that I'm now trying to install FreeBSD on is a HP lp2000r netserver, dual P3 1GHz, AcceleRAID 160 PCI RAID Controller (also a DAC960, but using FreeBSD's mly driver), and installing via CD on a standard ATAPI CDROM drive. As documented on the 5.0 hardware release notes, the package installation just stops a few minutes after it starts. The same thing happens if I try a FTP install using floppies. I then tried 4.8-RC2 and 4.7-RELEASE. In both cases, the installer does load the mly module, and the module does indeed find the RAID controller (as noted on the debug screen) but it doesn't find any drives. I finally went all the way back to 4.6-RELEASE, which detected my hardware properly and with which I successfully did the install. So, again, I'd like to try out 5.0 on this machine just to do some benchmarking on how far smp support has come. I have a working 4.6 system on it, so I could try to do this the hard way with cvsup/makeworld/mergemaster, but what gotchas are there to doing this? 4.X uses gcc 2 and 5.x uses gcc 3, and of course it's going up a major version, so I'm not quite sure what to expect. Is there any other way to get 5.0-RELEASE/CURRENT on this system? Thanks in advance, ============================ Darren Gamble Planner, Regional Services Shaw Cablesystems GP 630 - 3rd Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 4L4 (403) 781-4948 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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