Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:11:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Ben Compton <peabody@naxs.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install Problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980601141027.15962e-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980530172624.0093ca60@mail.naxs.com>
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On Sat, 30 May 1998, Ben Compton wrote: > I'm having problems installing FreeBSD 2.2.6 on my Dell computer. It > seems that there is some problem accessing my secondary IDE chain. My CD > ROM is the master unit on my secondary chain and I cannot get the installer > to recongize it. It is an ATAPI IDE CD ROM so I know that is not the > proble. On the contrary, that IS the problem. ATAPI does NOT probe consistently, and some drives are downright proprietary. Try moving it to the slave position on the primary controller. > I would also like some info about booting FreeBSD from a slave HD with the > Windows NT 4.0 OS Loader. I have NT installed on my master HD and I want > to put BSD on my slave HD and would like to be able to use both without > having to use a boot disk to run BSD. >From what I understand the NT bootloader can't boot off of other disks. > Oh and I would also like to know if anyone has attempted to set up X > Windows using a Diamond Fire GL 1000 Pro Video Card with the Permedia II > Chipset. I'm really new to the world of UNIX and I need all the help I > can get. Thanks in advance for the help. You need to get an X server from www.suse.com, but otherwise you can use XFree86. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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