Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 19:30:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Marty Leisner <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATAPI cds on 2.1? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960507191515.9210B-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <9605071524.AA07322@gnu.mc.xerox.com>
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On Tue, 7 May 1996, Marty Leisner wrote: > > > I'm about the reinstall 2.1 using ATAPI drives... > > > > If you want to know if the atapi install has a remote possibility of > > working, give it a shot. In some cases it may be necessary to put -c on > > the Boot: prompt to make sure wdc1 is set properly, but other than that > > it may work. > > > > I wasn't sure what C option, I have > ide 0 -- 696 mbyte disk, 4x cdrom > ide 1 -- 1.2gigabyte disk, 6x cdrom > (both cdroms are slaves) > > The messages at boot time didn't detect them... You have an odd enough situation that the driver may not be able to handle it. Try moving your 1.2gb to the slave on wdc0 (ide 0) and put the CDROMs on their own controller. Any reason you have two? > I tried ftp install...it wanted to ftp off an internet site (which means > you have direct connection to the internet...(no gateways). > I just wanted to ftp to another machine... > > The other machine is running linux...running nfsd I had to on linux > --allow-non-root (don't fully understand this, this is the linux nfs-server) > > Also something on linux which is very convenient is I can just do > export / and get the whole tree, it seems in freebsd I have to export > each file system manually in exportfs... Don't konw. Probably a security feature. :-) > Also, the install insists on swap space...I made a 1Mbyte swap filesystem > to make it happy (it should be smarter). Really? Shouldn't. > It also would be much easier to check options as you go along, instead of > complaining at the commit/extract phase... > > I also find the fact you want to install with floppies over > dos is kinda hard to believe ;-) The dos install can be a pain to resolve and can corrupt your DOS partition in rare instances. The floppy install will almost always work. It'll take a while, but it will work. > I just got system commander...it talks about solaris, linux, NT, OS/2 but no > freebsd...any success stories? Should work without a problem. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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