Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 13:41:15 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: installing freebsd Message-ID: <199505192041.NAA04984@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 May 1995 12:29:14 PDT." <9505191929.AA16564@gnu.mc.xerox.com>
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> > >I have a disk configured like this: > > Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System >/dev/hdc1 1 1 199 100264+ 83 Linux native >/dev/hdc2 200 200 800 302904 83 Linux native >/dev/hdc3 801 801 1613 409752 83 Linux native >/dev/hdc4 1024 1614 2484 438984 a5 BSD/386 >leisner@compudyne$ > >Will this work and how (it doesn't...my slice is above 1024 cylinders, >is this a problem ?) Yes, it is a problem because the BIOS cannot access areas above the 1024 cylinder boundary to boot the kernel. >Perhaps I need to interchange hdc3 with hdc4? That should work. >I also like the way linux boots with loadlin (there's a compressed >kernel, and loadlin runs the kernel to a boot device, with the >kernel uncompressing itself in protected mode... FreeBSD has compressed kernel support. The new install floppy makes use of it. >I also have an IDE cd-rom drive -- it seems freebsd doesn't >support ide cdroms -- I have another machine with a Sony U31 CDrom drive >I can nfs...can I use this (I suppose the alternative is to >do a mass copy of the cdrom to hard disk...) Yes, IDE cd-rom support is on the way, but until then, 2.0.5 supports installs over NFS, ftp, tape, Dos partitions, and any supported CDROM (Sony drives included). >marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com >Member of the League for Programming Freedom (http://www.lpf.org) >Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic > Arthur C. Clarke, The Lost Worlds of 2001 -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================
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