From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 26 11:08:23 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA01607 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Jan 1995 11:08:23 -0800 Received: from POSC.org (posc.org [192.246.215.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA01599; Thu, 26 Jan 1995 11:08:19 -0800 Received: from posc.posc.org (posc.posc.org [192.246.215.30]) by POSC.org (8.6.8.1/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA13598; Thu, 26 Jan 1995 09:05:04 -0600 Received: from sys14.posc.org (sys14.posc.org [192.246.215.69]) by posc.posc.org (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA05556; Thu, 26 Jan 1995 09:05:02 -0600 Received: by sys14.posc.org (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00984; Thu, 26 Jan 95 09:05:01 CST Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 09:05:00 -0600 (CST) From: Dave Waddell X-Sender: waddell@sys14 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , questions@FreeBSD.org, phk@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: More on stand/newfs failure In-Reply-To: <1209.791075050@time.cdrom.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >From my earlier mail: >> I also noted that my Teac CDROM CD50 was not seen as a CDROM drive: >> Unit attention asc:28 >> cd0 drive empty >> Could not get size >> even though i had the FreeBSD CDRom in there. Thanks for your help. Dave On Wed, 25 Jan 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > What do they use at Walnut Creek? I was under the impression that they > > used FreeBSD for their 32GB of stuff. Is there any way to adjust the > > disk parameters with some other program? Or, even better, can I do the > > whole thing by hand i.e. the newfs'ing and installation. Finally, will > > the OS recognize my CDRom when it finally boots? > > We actually boot off a much smaller (2GB) drive with a translated > geometry of 2MB/cyl. This works fine. The other drives can be > hand-newfs'd without any trouble since you're up and running at that > point and can run newfs easily. At boot time, there isn't even a > shell to facilitate this (no room!). > > I don't remember what kind of CDROM you have - can you refresh my > memory? > > Jordan > ========================================================================== | Dave Waddell | Disclaimer - I don't even speak for myself | | waddell@posc.org | | | kb5wxe@kb5wxe.ampr.org | + 1 713 267 5103 | ==========================================================================