From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 2 11: 5:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1B3415090 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 11:05:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jwalker@vt.edu) Received: from mail.vt.edu (gkar.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.40]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA05268 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 14:04:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from james ([198.82.58.89]) by gkar.cc.vt.edu (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.05.24.18.28.p7) with SMTP id <0FKL00JAA3OAEX@gkar.cc.vt.edu> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 14:04:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 14:08:34 -0500 From: James Walker Subject: Installation with HPT366 and kern.flp X-Sender: jwalker@mail.vt.edu To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3.0.6.32.19991102140834.00e53470@mail.vt.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all, 1. I am very new to FreeBSD, and pretty new with various bsd's or nix OSes. I am trying to install the current version from ftp, and I have successfully made two floppies, kern.flp and mfsroot.flp which don't have support for my hard disk controller. I have found the source for the support under the fp server directory: /-current/src/sys/dev/ata and I suppose I should use the ata-disk.c and .h files, but I need help making these into a new kern.flp file. The controller is the HPT366 one on an Abit BE6 mainboard. The installation goes quite smoothly until it tries to find a partition to install to, and it doesn't see the disk b/c the controller isn't supported. The partition I'm gonna install to is already formatted. I do not have a *nix or *bsd OS currently installed, but I have access to a FreeBSD shell account that I might could use to compile or make with. THanks, James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message