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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



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