Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 15:20:31 -0500 From: Ken Mason <KMASON@MAIL.NYSED.GOV> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD on a machine with 2 hardrives -Reply Message-ID: <s280acea.052@MAIL.NYSED.GOV>
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Thanks for the reply. I had jumpered the second drive to slave mode. The release of FreeBSD that I was attempting to install was 2.1.0. I have since downloaded 2.1.5 and which seems to recognize both hard drives without any problem. However, I am now encountering a different problem. I am able to do the initial configuration (including labeling and partitioning both hard drives), however I am having trouble getting beyond this point. When I do a Commit, some initial FreeBSD does some set up and comes up with a message "Starting Emergency Holographic Shell" and then asks for the next floppy. I insert the /bin/bin.aa-ae floppy and then get another Emergency Holographic Shell message followed by the message "Couldn't extract the following distributions. This may be because they were not available on the installation media you've chose: bin doc manpages dict". Any suggestions as to how to get around this? Thanks. >>> Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> 11/05/96 04:15pm >>> On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Ken Mason wrote: > I have an old AT&T 6386/SX machine that I have been running FreeBSD > 2.1 on for several months. The machine originally had one 80 meg hard > drive (Quantum ProDrive). I have installed a second hard drive ( 120 meg > Maxtor) and have reformatted the original hard drive back to dos. > > The machine boots to dos without any problems and both hard drives are > usable. Check so far. > I am now attempting to re-install (from floppies) FreeBSD 2.1. However, > the presence of the second hard drive seems to causing grief during the > installation. The installation finds the original disk controller (wdc0, irq > 14) and 80 meg hard drive (wd0) however it does not appear to find the > second hard drive. Eventually, the install hangs with a blank screen > following the message "/stand/sysinstall running as init". At this point, a > power off/on is required to restart the computer. Ack. Did you jumper the second drive to slave mode? 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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