From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 19 13:42:50 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA07136 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 May 1995 13:42:50 -0700 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA07130 for ; Fri, 19 May 1995 13:42:47 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA04984; Fri, 19 May 1995 13:41:16 -0700 Message-Id: <199505192041.NAA04984@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Marty Leisner" cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: installing freebsd In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 19 May 1995 12:29:14 PDT." <9505191929.AA16564@gnu.mc.xerox.com> Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 13:41:15 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > >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 ==============================================