From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 27 02:23:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA08485 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 02:23:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [194.93.177.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA08324 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 02:21:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA11011; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 12:20:07 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Message-ID: <19980727122007.A10907@ucb.crimea.ua> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 12:20:07 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Josh , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cam worked, how to get system onto SCSI disks? Mail-Followup-To: Josh , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91i In-Reply-To: ; from Josh on Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 05:42:06PM +1000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 05:42:06PM +1000, Josh wrote: > Hi I wrote in regarding cam last week. I got it to install and > compiled a kernel OK. Now I need to get the system onto the SCSI disks. > Its an onboard aic7895 thats causing the grief! The kernel can see the > 2 scsi disks OK. > BUT I am having trouble getting the things created properly. If I use > /stand/sysinstall it only sees sd0 and sd1. Not ideal and in frustration > I tried it and it rebooted the machine :-) > Using the instructions on this page:- > > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook104.html#156 > > I managed to get a partition rda0a to mounted on /mnt and it appears > to work. However I am not 100% happy and would appreciate any advice > on the matter. If this works as I hope I intend to pax the idea partitions > up and write them onto the SCSI (9Gig) drive, remove the idea and pray! > > If anyone has a comment please do as I am feeling my way! > > Josh > There is a CAM boot floppy available at http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/cam-boot/ Regards, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message