Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 22:41:32 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "A. S. Clark" <admin@jcrnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SORRY TO BOTHER YOU> Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980216224047.11246J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <34E8620F.4E9A@jcrnet.com>
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On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, A. S. Clark wrote: > I'm sure you get millions of dumbass tech support questions everyday, > but I am really interested in using freebsd, and I purchased the Walnut > Creek CD so I would like to make it work. We get about a hundred msgs/day or so, and not all of them are totally bonehead. :) > Cyrix 686 200 mmx > 6 Gig IDE Maxtor Hard Drive > 96 MB RAM > IBM 100BT Ethernet Card over a T1 > 24x Generic CDROM, the Kernel finds it as Mitsumi I believe. > > The hard drive has two 2 gig partions (more or less) one running Windows > 95 and the other simply storage so it has about 2 gig free un > partitioned space. > > When I try to install (either by install.bat off cd or bootflop) the > kernel can't find wdc0 or wdc1. If I go into visual mode and remove the > CONF's It shows wdc0 and wdc1 with the correct I/0 but once I go into > the install it says "No Disk's found . . ."etc. What brand of IDE controller do you have? If it's a Promise, take it back and get something else. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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