Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 15:00:59 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Francioch <mafrancioch@ucdavis.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: More basic ?'s Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950118144718.14003B-100000@rocky> In-Reply-To: <199501132224.AA124025847@yarmouth.fsl.noaa.gov>
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To those who mailed me: thanks for the replies...I got the boot to work; I must have downloaded a corrupt image. In the docs, it mentions using the command "dmesg" to recall the initial boot device-sensing. However, I noticed that in the initial boot-to-installation-menu from floppy, the same sensing occurs --but do I need to go through the fdisk procedure to get a prompt with which to recall this info? I don't see a way to do so from the installation, and think that it would be helpful to me BEFORE reformatting my HD (I have yet to get a new drive, and have only 540MB for DOS/OS2/FreeBSD -- this doesn't seem really practicable) and losing the system which right now does work largely the way I want it to. Oh, the 2.0 docs (FAQ, that is) specify that SCSI controllers on-board SoundBlaster-16 cards are NOT supported. Since I have a nice NEC SCSI CD-ROM drive, I would like to use it -- but wish to be spared the extra 160+ bucks for a new VLB controller right away simply to be able to use it in UNIX (which I want to try as perhaps a more stable, quicker multimedia environment than OS/2 as well as a cool learning experience). Any knowledge of such support in the offing? MiKe
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