Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 15:18:43 -0500 (EST) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu> To: Chris Wood <wood@ct.picker.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, c.l.wood@csu-e.csuohio.edu Subject: Re: Free BSD on a gw2k Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980217151233.6828A-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> In-Reply-To: <34E9D980.505DB9F1@ct.picker.com>
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I have an almost identical system running FreeBSD 2.2.5 just fine. I use XFree86 3.3.1 which handles the Rage II+ video card perfectly, and I use the Open Sound System to handle my AudioPCI card (http://www.4front-tech.com). Installation was a breeze. Turn off Plug-n-Play in you BIOS, and set the hard drive delay to 6 seconds. A good way to do this is to reset the BIOS to the default, reboot, then up the hard drive delay. I zarched the Windows 95 as soon as I got the computer, and installed FreeBSD on the disk using a shared slice configuration(i.e. not dangerously dedicated). The boot manager installed fine. I installed the OS via ftp over a modem. The CD-ROM is handled perfectly via the second IDE controller (wdc1). You may want to try running fdisk /mbr from DOS before you install to eliminate any boot sector viruses, problems, etc. If you need it, I'll send you my kernel config. Good luck. Joe Clarke On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Chris Wood wrote: > Dear Daemons: > > I wonder if you or anyone you know has had any success installing > FreeBSD on a Gateway 2000 machine. I have a gw2k 200MMX Pentium, with > integrated Ensoniq PCI sound and ATI Rage II video on the motherboard. > It has 32 Mb SDRAM and a 3.8 Gb EIDE Hard drive. I am having a hell of > a time installing > FreeBSD on it. I bought the CD from Cheap*Bytes, it is version 2.5.2, > IIRC. I've gotten to the config program, but it hangs when trying to > write the boot manager, and in any case, there are no options for my > sound & video cards, and I'm not sure if it has the right driver for my > CD-ROM (it is a Toshiba 20X). I'm kicking myself in the butt for not > making my own machine so I could pick out BSD-compatible hardware, but > I wonder if you know of anyone who has successfully installed FreeBSD on > a machine like this, and how they did it. > > Thank You, > > Christopher L. Wood > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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