From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 22 18:42:11 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3D2916A403 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:42:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from deeptech71@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.249]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B54A313C4C5 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:42:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from deeptech71@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c24so448168ana for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:42:10 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ZtJCfHtcLY6coxcsyf+e8AVrE+yNCcxzXr1c9Un6Pbu4DvxfdJLn9lXwxPQJ0VHWZQNqCTEtmls0Flw1vRl+VSQE3IHr9m82BqLSStYyS2+No5KkN2vYTRiqBbeKQ0GdL/3q6x7wUUGP9LnsPfhlUOf8i0ip4Zl46cWb9MaGUB0= Received: by 10.49.20.1 with SMTP id x1mr7138313nfi.1169491328411; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:42:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.123.111? ( [84.0.106.116]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id d2sm16041945nfe.2007.01.22.10.42.07; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:42:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <45B50628.6050703@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:44:56 +0100 From: deeptech71@gmail.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <45B3A409.40005@gmail.com> <45B41941.9000007@gmail.com> <01997974-108B-434C-8498-0EBCC0529900@ketralnis.com> In-Reply-To: <01997974-108B-434C-8498-0EBCC0529900@ketralnis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: what can i do with a 486? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:42:11 -0000 David King wrote: > Can you see the hard drive if you boot from a floppy? > > Is the hard drive in the boot path in the BIOS? Are you using a 40-pin > cable for an EIDE drive? It sounds like you can't see the drive at all Can't boot FreeBSD from a floppy. That is, it boots, but gives an error. Other image floppies, like a DBAN image, work fine. I can definitely see the HDD, when I found the machine, the HDD had a bootable, working Windows 3.1 on it. Still haven't been able to get access to the comp's BIOS settings, so .. dunno. WTF is an EIDE drive? The cables are the same on the 486 and the new machine (::::::::::.::::::::: or something like that), and both comps recognize the drive correctly.