From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 18 15:01:15 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id PAA04844 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 15:01:15 -0800 Received: from rocky.ucdavis.edu (rocky.ucdavis.edu [128.120.8.150]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA04838 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 15:01:14 -0800 Received: by rocky.ucdavis.edu (8.6.9/UCD3.0) id PAA15524; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 15:01:00 -0800 Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 15:00:59 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Francioch X-Sender: ez003216@rocky To: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: More basic ?'s In-Reply-To: <199501132224.AA124025847@yarmouth.fsl.noaa.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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