From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 00:01:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA13954 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 May 1996 00:01:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from upsmot02.msn.com (upsmot02.msn.com [204.95.110.79]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA13948 for ; Wed, 29 May 1996 00:01:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from upmajb02.msn.com (upmajb02.msn.com [204.95.110.74]) by upsmot02.msn.com (8.6.8.1/Configuration 4) with SMTP id XAA17338 for ; Tue, 28 May 1996 23:59:49 -0700 Date: Wed, 29 May 96 06:59:34 UT From: "Steve Chen" Message-Id: To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: stevec@msn.com Subject: installation Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi! Few weeks ago, I bought the FreeBSD 2.1 and tried to install it to one of my computers. The computer equiped with: 80486 CPU: 66MHz One adaptec 2840vl/2842vl SCSI controller which control my quad speed SONY CDROM. One EIDE controller with an 814MB hard drive. One NE2000 compatible ethernet card. One 14.4Kbps internal fax modern. A Diamond Stealth SE video card with 1M memory on board. A 15" MAGVAVOX MAGNASCAN/15 monitor with Horizontal frequency:30-66KHz and Vertical frequence 50-11Hz. Because I encounter so many problems while I tried to install FreeBSD to my system, I even get a FreeBSD 2.2 Snapshot and the booklet: Installing and Running FreeBSD and hope if they could help me. After I read the booklet, I have some questions. (1) Is there any way that I can install FreeBSD to my computer with above equipment? (2) If the answer is "NO", what should I do to install the FreeBSD in my computer with the minimum cost? If I add a extra SCSI hard drive and set it as D drive, would it be easier to install? Or, if, I took the EIDE controller and the 814 hard drive out of my computer and install a SCSI hard drive, would it be helpful? (3) The original disk Geometry was: 1654 cyls/ 16 heads/ 63 sectors During the repartition, the disk Geometry became: 827 cyls/ 32 heads/63 sectors And a disk space disagrement message would display while installation. I really need some help to solve these problems. thanks Steve