From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 13 23:43:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA03934 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 23:43:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA03927 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 23:43:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id QAA08765; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 16:13:00 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707140643.QAA08765@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: What I consider and odd install In-Reply-To: from Tom Samplonius at "Jul 13, 97 11:33:06 pm" To: tom@sdf.com (Tom Samplonius) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 16:13:00 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Tom Samplonius stands accused of saying: > > Strange... booteasy was a rather new addition to FreeBSD (2.0, 2.05, or > something... well that is "somewhat new"). Adaptec 2940 has had the > "bios support for more than two drives" option for a long time. I recall using booteasy on a DOS/Xenix 2.1.1 system. 8) > Does os-bs really work in this case (ie. when booteasy doesn't)? OS-BS is generally much better. I has the downside that it has to be configured, unlike booteasy which autodetects. > Tom -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[