From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 12 08:53:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA05241 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 08:53:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from horton.iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA05033 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 08:53:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from proot@horton.iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA12954; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 10:51:14 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199806121551.KAA12954@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: Installing FBSD onto SCSI SyJet? To: luomat+FreeBSD@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J Luoma) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 10:51:14 -0500 (CDT) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199806121457.KAA13074@luomat.peak.org> from Timothy J Luoma at "Jun 12, 98 10:57:15 am" X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a previous message, Timothy J Luoma said: > Author: Doug White > Original-Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 03:38:42 -0700 (PDT) > Message-ID: > > > > I suppose you can, as long as the Syjet is the 1GB version. > > Yup, it is... actually 1.5gb > > > > Booting it is your problem :-) Most SCSI controllers won't boot > > removables. > > Well I have an emergency EZ135 disk for NeXTStep which I use to boot from > time to time, so that will work. I've installed FBSD on a SyJet and it worked fine. It was just a quick test on a friends SyJet, so I didn't get a lot of work on it. The SyQuest drives are complete SCSI disks, unlink Zip drives, and need no special drivers (like old optical disks). > > My real concern is the problem where at the end of the installation one > cannot get past the boot manager's F? prompt.... *that* would be yucky when > doing an FTP install. Why would you need this? I installed it to use the entire disk (but remain compatible with other OS's), you don't really need booteasy. Unless you want to boot easy from a different disk into the SyJet disk. That I can't help you with. > Hopefully when 2.3 hits the presses I'll be able to afford the CDs&book, > which I would really like. Having the CD is a must. Consider doing a subscription, it'll save you $15. -- Quoted from the 2nd world dictionary of inexplanable science phenomena: chronogravitational vortex n [krone-oh-grav-a-tasion-al vor-teks] 1: a region of the space-time continuum which irrestibily lowers the time flux density constant usually surrounding committee meetings 2: a sink for operations in the dimension of time 3: unexplained changes in the rate of time To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message