From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 24 13:03:07 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA21612 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 13:03:07 -0800 Received: from huey.cadvision.com (huey.cadvision.com [204.50.1.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA21605 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 13:02:58 -0800 Received: from cadc51.cadvision.com by huey.cadvision.com (AIX 4.1/UCB 5.64/4.04.tri.dcx) id AA43198; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 13:59:18 -0700 Message-Id: <9511242059.AA43198@huey.cadvision.com> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Ken Horemans" To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 14:04:20 +0000 Subject: FTP installation of FreeBSD X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Ken Horemans" X-Pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.01) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk A couple of questions.... 1. Has anyone ever tried installing FreeBSD into a partition on a drive which uses the NEC disk manager (used to access over 500 Megs of a large EIDE drive with an IDE controller)? This means that your disk information is not correct in your CMOS settings. Will this work, or should it cause a mess? Is there a way around this other than buying an EIDE controller card? 2. How long does a base install take over a 14.4K link?? My best guess is 20 hours(at 54 megs)....has anyone ever done this successfully? Thanks for your help. Ken Horemans, khoreman@cadvision.com BTW, you might want to put info in your FAQ or somewhere else about how to recover your system if the install fails after the boot manager is created. I did this by reinstalling dos 6.0 over top of the other files, but maybe there is a better way?