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Date:      Sun, 24 May 1998 00:53:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Li Zhang <lizhang6@vt.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Question about installation
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980524005223.9142C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35654ECB.25B8@vt.edu>

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On Fri, 22 May 1998, Li Zhang wrote:

> Hi,
> How are you?

Not bad.

> I am trying to install FreeBSD version 2.2.5 in my computer. But I met a
> problem.
> 
> The following is my computer hardware set.
> 	Primary master device: hard-disk1
> 	Primary slave device:  zip driver
> 	Secondary master device: hard-disk2
> 	Secondary slave device: CD-ROM
> 
> I want to install FreeBSD on the hard-disk2 from CD-ROM. But, because
> they are all on the Secondary Channel (device), their IRQs are 15 and
> I/O addresses are 170. So when I used "install.bat", setup procedure
> told me that the two devices conflicted. When I continued, the CD-ROM
> was ignored. My installation failed.

That doesn't make sense.  The disk and CDROM disk themselves won't show up
in the config utility, but the IDE controller that they're attached to
will show up at that IRQ and port.

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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