From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 3 17:19:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA29546 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 17:19:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [204.214.4.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA29541 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 17:19:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [206.104.22.160] by fly.HiWAAY.net; (8.7.5/1.1.8.2/21Sep95-1003PM) id TAA31575; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 19:19:09 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <31B30828.70F8@canoe.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 18:38:02 -0500 To: blizzard@canoe.ca, questions@freebsd.org From: David Kelly Subject: Re: FreeBSD.NOT Cc: blizzard@canoe.ca Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 10:43 AM -0500 6/3/96, Dave Blizzard wrote: >Ok I have to admit defeat. > For three weeks I have tried every permutation of installing Free BSD >on a 386 and 486 pc so that it installs on a SCSI drive purchased >especially for the install. [snip] I've done all the things Dave has had trouble with, and not had anything near the troubles he reports. When I put FreeBSD on a SCSI disk with an IDE already in the system the only thing that bugged me is that I never overcame the need to type "sd(1,a)/kernel" or whatever to get to FreeBSD. Actually I solved that problem by pulling the 800M IDE drive and adding a 2G SCSI to my 500M SCSI. While I don't think *I'm* qualified to help Dave, reading his message I had a lot more questions that should have been answered in his posting if he expects help. Particulars such as "Which FreeBSD release?", "What make/models MB, BIOS, DOS, Windows, IDE HD, SCSI card, SCSI drive, CDROM?" "What drivers are used in DOS/Windows to access your drives?" "How much memory do you have?" -- David Kelly N4HHE, n4hhe@amsat.org, dkelly@hiwaay.net ============================================================= To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison