From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Feb 6 18:49:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA21416 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 18:49:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail3.texas.net (mail3.texas.net [207.207.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA21411 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 18:49:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blp-lds@texas.net) Received: from texas.net (mnet01-64.sat.texas.net [206.127.6.64]) by mail3.texas.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA03058 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 20:49:08 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <34DBCBA4.63B46CF7@texas.net> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 20:49:09 -0600 From: Bryan Parkoff Reply-To: blp-lds@texas.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Needed Help for FreeBSD v2.2.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" Hello, I am new to FreeBSD v2.2.5. I have a complete FreeBSD manual book. I have several questions to ask. Please answer each questions. I have Sound Blaster 32 AWE PnP with ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM. Why FreeBSD has only two IDE controller cards on both IRQ 14 and IRQ 15? I mean that it supports first and second IDE controller cards. Sound Blaster 32 AWE uses IRQ 5 and CD-ROM uses IRQ 10. Do I have to tell FreeBSD to use third IDE controller card? Or I can change from second IDE controller card IRQ 15 to IRQ 10 and 0x170 address to 0x168. I am sure that it will work. My hard disk drive has 2484 cylinders, 16 heads, and 63 sectors. Should I change disk geometry because FreeBSD does not support more than 1024 cylinders? Like 621 cylinders, 64 heads, and 63 sectors? I am not sure which User, X-User, Developer, X-Developer, all other software to be installed. Can you please advise me to choose the best installation? I read chapter seven and chapter eight in the complete FreeBSD manual book. I am trying to install, but error message says that file is not found. Look at below. # cd /usr # for i in /cdrom/XF86331/X331*.tgz; do # tar xvf $i # done I do not understand why FreeBSD does not accept programming like C++ language. Please give me more information where I can use step on step installation. The complete FreeBSD manual book does not have step on step installation. Can you tell me which newsgroups are best that I can keep feedback with someone for answers. Thank you, Bryan Parkoff BLP-LDS@texas.net