From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Aug 1 11:59:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from email.accessus.net (email.accessus.net [209.145.128.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0011337B401 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 11:59:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@jwebmedia.com) Received: from [209.145.133.59] (account jkoenig@accessus.net HELO jwebmedia.com) by email.accessus.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.4.8) with ESMTP id 11638682 for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2001 13:59:39 -0500 Message-ID: <3B68534F.30FB0FE3@jwebmedia.com> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 14:06:55 -0500 From: Joseph Koenig Reply-To: joe@jwebmedia.com Organization: jWeb New Media Design X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Subject: So many install problems... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm sure someone is gonna say RTFM and I'm sorry, I bet this gets covered all the time, but I can't find any help and the list archives don't seem to be working. All I'm trying to do is install FreeBSD on a new system. It's the BSD PowerPak 4.2 from Walnut Creek (Is that my problem?). The system I'm trying to install on is a Dell PowerEdge 2500SC 1GHz PIII, 512MB ECC SDRAM, 3x18GB U160 Seagate Cheetah's in a RAID 5. The raid controller is an Adaptec 2100. The bios tells me there are 2 containers, which is correct. However, FreeBSD tells me there are no hard disks in the system, and says the controller may not have been probed properly. If I go into the UserConfig thing, I can't pick the driver for this card. Adaptec's site says to just let the kernel do it's normal configuration and that it will recognize the card and the drives. Should that be correct? How should I go about installing FreeBSD on this system? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message