Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 13:50:17 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: farofia <farofia@mail.telepac.pt> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building floppies Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960115133044.24391A-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Chameleon.960115033529.farofia@host.telepac.pt>
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On Mon, 15 Jan 1996, farofia wrote: Let me divide this one into sections. You wrap too, so I'm going to mangle the quotes. > In the INSTALL.TXT file you mention that the files should be copied to > disks in directories named, for instance, \bin\bin.aa or just \bin. When making the floppies, you want to make SETS of floppies from the directories, also called distributions. For example, with the bin distribution, you want to copy as many of the bin.* files to floppies as possible, keeping track that those disks contain the bin dist. When install time comes, you will load in each disk one at a time until you've copied the entire set in. Then the installer will expand the files as necessary. When copying the bin.* files, just copy them to the root directory of the floppy. > In this file you also mention that 5 files should be copied to each 1.44Mb disk, > but as a > matter of fact, each disk can hold 6 files (with 5 the space free is 254000 > bytes - the > files have 240000 bytes). Should I copy 5 or 6 ? This must have to do with some > users that > have 1.2Mb disks. Copy as many as will fit. > The OS FreeBSD is only the bin files ? If not, where are the other components > (besides software) ? You can get along with just the bin dist. There are several other distributions (games, X11, src to name a few). They are available from the same place you got the bin dist. > My internet connection is dial-up. If I install only the bin files does > FreeBSD have support for this ? (so I can download his software) If not > can I download software for it with DOS and then install it in FreeBSD ? Yes. The bin dist comes with enough to call up your isp. (ppp, tip, slattach) If you are making install sets, you want to that from DOS. > > I have a CD-ROM (Pioneer DRUA-124X). Will FreeBSD work with it ? > The CD-ROM is connected to a SoundBlaster AWE32. The card as two connectors. (Great card, btw) Do you know the interface type? You hint below it's ATAPI. In that case, it may be necessary to move the cdrom onto your primary disk controller and make it the slave and your hard disk the master. I guess the wcd driver is particluar about where the drive is attached. I don't have one of these so someone help me here.... When I boot with the disk created by the image file ATAPI.FLP, I run configure > (-c option), > to check out the hardware configurations. There were 24 conflicts. In the > 'visual' option > I saw that all the CD-ROM configurations appeared with 'conflict' warning. The default settings for those devices happen to conflict. But just delete the ones you don't have -- it's not likely someone is going to have one of each cdrom type and ethernet card, and removing them will clear some of those conflicts. All > but one. > The one of 'mcd10', port 340, IRQ 11. But my IDE interface on the AWE32 is > configured to > IRQ 15 (it won't work with other configuration). Should I configure FreeBSD to > look out for > the CD on that IRQ ? If so, in wich CD option should I set that (mcd0, mcd1, > matcd0, scd0) You want to find wcd0 and set that to IRQ 15. > Isn't the hard disk configured to IRQ 15 ? The second hard disk CONTROLLER is. Your PRIMARY controller is on IRQ 14. > I'm telling you this, because I bought OS/2 and I can't get it to work with my > CD and I > can't get in touch with Pioneer, so they can give me the driver. Have you tried hobbes.nmsu.edu? They keep a stockpile of drivers there. > You say that FreeBSD is SoundBlaster compatible. The setup table doesn't show > any options > to configure that card. Is it compatible ? Quite. But, to get the sound card working, you have to rebuild the kernel, after you finish installing. > Thank you very much for your time. Hope this helps. Doug White | Student, University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Major: Computer Science http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Eugene/Spfld BBS List Publisher
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