From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 3 13:06:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA14407 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 13:06:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from horton.iaces.com ([204.147.87.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA14399 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 13:06:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.4/8.7.3) id PAA02055; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 15:06:36 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199701032106.PAA02055@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: Integraph T-300 To: kacanski@umich.edu (Kacanski Aleksandar) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 15:06:35 -0600 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <16F62B4160E@HG-BASIC1MAIL.HG.MED.UMICH.EDU> from Kacanski Aleksandar at "Jan 3, 97 03:40:08 pm" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Kacanski Aleksandar said: > Hi, > I am interested in getting FreeBSD installed on the Integraph TD-300 > workstation. I have NT4.0 installed on it, so dual boot would be good > way to set it up. > My questions are: > Did anyone attempted to install FreeBSD on Integraph intel based > computers? > Is this PCI based SCSI conntroller supported: AdaptecAIC 78XX PCI SCSI > controller (IRQ=9 ...)? > How about video drivers ->MGA64 Matrox graphics? Both of these are supported. 2.1.6 for the Matrox. > And last, would someone explain to me how the remote ftp installation > works. My understending is that you can download the binaries to your > MS-DOS partition and from there with the Boot floppy finish the > installation. I don't see how someone can set up network installation > without having comparable operating system on the client side (FreeBSD). In my case I > have NT 4.0 and I am not able to run any sheel program on my machine > (maybe I can but I don't know how to do it?) What you need to do is download the boot floppy image and the rawrite utility. Use rawrite to put the image on a floppy and boot off of that. Use the NT command prompt. This is more or less a DOS shell. -- Income Tax is equitable because you make a buck; you pay a buck. - Irv Anderson, DFL Majority Leader, Minnesota House of Reps