Date: Thu, 7 Aug 97 15:01:05 EDT From: C Matthew Curtin <cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 2.2.1-R installation on an Adaptec 7880-fed SCSI system? Message-ID: <199708111848.OAA24392@hawking.research.megasoft.com>
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Hi, [ I'm reposting this, because I didn't see it come back, and can't find it in the archives. -cmcurtin] I've got a bit of a problem getting FreeBSD on a new machine here. We've got a system with two ultrawide SCSI-3 drives hung off of an Adaptec 7880. I see that there's a driver available for the board, but it's not on the 2.2.1-R boot disk. We can actually newfs the filesystems and get some data copied to the target disk during the install, but by about 20% or so into the installation of /bin, the system hangs. Even doing a minimal install, with the intention of getting it far enough along to build and install the right driver, then installing the rest of the system doesn't work. Is there a way that we can get FreeBSD installed on the system in a relatively straightforward manner? I'm trying to avoid having to spend the time to figure out how to build a boot/install disk for 2.2.1 with the right driver in place. I do have another 2.2.1 machine on the network, if that would make a solution any easier. Any help I can get would obviously be greatly appreciated. -- Matt Curtin Chief Scientist Megasoft Online cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com http://www.research.megasoft.com/people/cmcurtin/ I speak only for myself Pull AGIS.NET's Plug! DES has fallen! http://www.frii.com/~rcv/deschall.htm
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