From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 4 10:54:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA13086 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:54:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA12861 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:53:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA15632; Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:53:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:53:29 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: David Lee cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: IDE Hard Drives In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, David Lee wrote: > I have a question about what IDE drive I can install FreeBSD on. I have > a hard drive on my primary master with MS-DOS 6.22/Windows 3.11 > installed, a CD-ROM on my primary slave and a hard drive on my secondary > master with Linux Red Hat 5.0 installed. I am wondering if FreeBSD > could be install on a hard drive which is the secondary slave? You can, but you'll have a heck of a time booting it since your BIOS only recognies the first two IDE disks for booting purposes. Using a smart boot selector should work for you though. > Also, can it be installed on a hard drive above cylinder 1024? Linux > claims that this may not work (as does FreeBSD), however it does work > just fine. Linux installs without complaining. The boot loader called > "LILO" installs with a warning, but seems to work just fine. Has this > been tried with FreeBSD? Also, is this a function of my BIOS? Yes it is a function of your BIOS. If Linux works then FreeBSD should too. > Another question ... about changing shells. What is the proper way to > change shells? I was using FreeBSD 2.2.2 and the command "chsh". I was > trying to change from csh to bash. However, after I changed shells, > none of the bash startup files seemed to work. My path was not properly > defined, now did my prompt work as it was supposed. You need to install bash first. > One more question. Is it worthwhile to upgrade to FreeBSD 2.2.5 from > 2.2.2? I found some things with 2.2.2 that I didn't like, such as the > documentation, and I was wondering whether the improvements are big > enough to warrant buying the new 2.2.5 CD's. Please let me know your > opinion. Yes, or wait for 2.2.6. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major