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Date:      Tue, 24 Jun 1997 07:59:24 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        jpurser@mail.dimen.com (John Purser)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Installation to a slave drive
Message-ID:  <19970624075924.ZD53286@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <046A9C3CDFD9D011AB6D00A024DEE5D7022359@locutus.dimen.com>; from John Purser on Jun 23, 1997 13:11:05 -0600
References:  <046A9C3CDFD9D011AB6D00A024DEE5D7022359@locutus.dimen.com>

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As John Purser wrote:

> I'm a very confused MSDos/Windows user looking for an education in Unix
> for business and personal reasons.  On the recommendation of a co-worker
> I selected FreeBSD as an educational platform, picked up a set of CD's
> (Ver 2.15) and tried to Install to a slaved (D) 824 meg Western Digital
> EIDE drive on my home computer.
> 
> The problem is I can't get the install program to recognize the slave
> drive.

What are your boot messages related to `wd' and `wdc'?  Hint: you can
scroll back through the messages once the installation menu appeared
by using ScrollLock, followed by PgUp/PgDn.

(Redirected to -questions, where this better belongs.)
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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