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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:40:21 +0530
From: Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Which disk is which
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On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:32:16 -0400 (EDT), Jerry McAllister
<jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I've booted a 5.2.1 miniinstall CD and got to the point where I choose which
> > disk to install onto.
> >
> > My choices are
> > ad0
> > da0
> >
> > Great. How do I know which disk is which?
> 
> OK  ad0 would be the first ide drive and da0 would be the first SCSI
> drive or maybe the first USB drive.
> 
> >                       _I_ could work it out if the panel
> > displayed information such as
> > Brand
> > Capacity
> >
> > Note: DOS names would be worse than useless because I don't use DOS, and the
> > BIOS doesn't detect all my drives.
> 
> If your BIOS doesn't detect your drives you have problems to deal
> with before you get to installing FreeBSD.
> 
> > The website doesn't help.
> >
> > I'm not on any list. Please respond by
> > a) Fixing the web page
> > b) Mailing me the necessary info (eg the fixed page when it's done) in case I
> > can't discover by other means which is which.
> 
> Try not giving orders to volunteers.  It is tacky and won't get
> you anywhere.    Maybe you should learn enough to fix the DOC yourself
> and submit a change.
> 
> ////jerry

Subhro puts some ice packs on Jerry, offers him an icecream and
decides to call up Tom. :-D

Regards
S.


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