From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 11 11:47:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA22416 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 11:47:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gw.research.megasoft.com (gw.research.megasoft.com [206.230.35.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA22411 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 11:47:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by gw.research.megasoft.com (8.7.5/8.7.3-cmcurtin) id OAA23590 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 14:45:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hawking.research.megasoft.com(192.168.2.2) by gw.research.megasoft.com via smap (V2.0) id xma023584; Mon, 11 Aug 97 14:44:49 -0400 Received: (from cmcurtin@localhost) by hawking.research.megasoft.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA24392; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 14:48:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199708111848.OAA24392@hawking.research.megasoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid X-Face: "&>g(&eGr?u^F:nFihL%BsyS1[tCqG7}I2rGk4{aKJ5I_5A\*6RYn4"N.`1pPF9LO!Fa<(gj:12)?=uP2l01e10Gij"7j&-)torL^iBrNf\s7PDLm=rf[PjxtSbZ{J(@@j"q2/iV9^Mx To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 2.2.1-R installation on an Adaptec 7880-fed SCSI system? Date: Thu, 7 Aug 97 15:01:05 EDT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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