From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 19:57:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA03557 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 May 1996 19:57:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA03551 for ; Mon, 6 May 1996 19:57:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA28590; Mon, 6 May 1996 19:59:19 -0700 Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 19:59:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Marty Leisner cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATAPI cds on 2.1? In-Reply-To: <9605061712.AA05177@gnu.mc.xerox.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 6 May 1996, Marty Leisner wrote: > > I'm about the reinstall 2.1 using ATAPI drives... > > I read the docs, and it talks about: > the drivers are alpha > the atapi drives has to be master (not slave) > > I'm not sure why I have to specify this... (on linux its just > /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, etc). > > Would it make more sense to bootstrap with dist on dos or over nfs to another > machine? I don't understand what you mean here. If you want to know if the atapi install has a remote possibility of working, give it a shot. In some cases it may be necessary to put -c on the Boot: prompt to make sure wdc1 is set properly, but other than that it may work. The easiest install methods in order IMHO: 1) CDROM (SCSI preferred) 2) FTP 3) NFS 4) Floppies 5) DOS Your order may vary. :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major