From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 3 18:23:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21DCF14D3E; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 18:23:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from gravel (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA07793; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 21:23:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19990903212905.03bba6d0@granite.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtancsa@granite.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 21:35:52 -0400 To: Andrew Whitcroft From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Need Installation Help... Cc: questions@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <99090320125000.06607@utah.n9kws.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The question you asked belongs on the questions mailing list, not the current and stable list. I will cc' it there for you. You also need to provide a little more info like 1) What are you installing ? FreeBSD 3.1, 3.2, FreeBSD current ? 2) HOW are you installing it ? From CD-ROM, boot floppy/network install ? 3) Did you check the list of supported devices ? From the HARDWARE.TXT file Adaptec AIC7850, AIC7860, AIC7880, AIC789x, on-board SCSI controllers. are indeed supported. Also, for networks cards, AMD PCnet/PCI (79c970 & 53c974 or 79c974) are listed as supported. Is that what you have ? ---Mike At 09:10 PM 9/3/99 , Andrew Whitcroft wrote: >Hi All -- > >I am trying to become part of the FreeBSD world but am having problems with the >installation process. I am trying to install FreeBSD on a IBM PC Server 325. >However, as near as I can determine the Adaptec AIC 7880 SCCI card and the >AMD/PCI network interface is giving me fits. > >After looking at the FAQ, and other documentation, it appears that the source >of my problems are being caused by lack of support fo these devices in the >generic install kernel. This is further complicated by the fact that I do not >have a machine which is currently running FreeBSD, so I cannot build a custom >installation disk. > >I really want to install FreeBSD on this box, but these issues are preventing >me from doing so. Does anybody have any comments/thoughts which might help me >get out of this corner I have painted myself into? > >Thanks in Advance, >Andy. >-- >-------------------------------------------------------------- >Andrew Whitcroft >n9kws at execpc.com >-------------------------------------------------------------- > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa, Network Admin * mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications Corp, * http://www.sentex.net/mike Cambridge, Ontario * 01.519.651.3400 Canada * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message