Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 20:13:54 -0400 From: "Gary Chrysler" <tcg@ime.net> To: "James Hu" <jxh@cs.wustl.edu>, <john@starfire.mn.org> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: detailed instructions for dial-up PPP installation? Message-ID: <199610100014.UAA13663@ime.net>
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Umm, Actually FreeBSD prefers to have ATAPI drives as slaves on the primary controller! -Enjoy Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848 ---------- > From: James Hu <jxh@cs.wustl.edu> > To: john@starfire.mn.org > Cc: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: detailed instructions for dial-up PPP installation? > Date: Tuesday, October 08, 1996 7:03 PM > > Hello, > > <john@starfire.mn.org> writes: > > James wrote: > >> HARDWARE.TXT > >> INSTALL.TXT > >> KNOWNBUG.TXT > >> README.TXT > >> RELNOTES.TXT > > I should also have mentioned that I read all of these, and INSTALL.TXT > > has a rather cursory and superficial description of what to do -- > > sort of on the order of a summary, but no details. I did look > > there, first. > > What didn't you understand? I am sure that the FreeBSD team want > input on this. It is not their intention to leave newcomers to > FreeBSD confused. > > >> Otherwise, I believe the ATAPI driver wants the CDROM drive to > >> be the slave drive of the secondary IDE controller (a second IDE > >> controller running on irq 15). > > Hmmm. Anyway to get it to look at a slave drive on the PRIMARY > > controller??? If we could get that working, it'd be best for us. > > I don't know of a way to do this. Perhaps someone on the FreeBSD team > can provide you with a boot floppy set in this manner? > > -- James
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