From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 18 22:06:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA01394 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 22:06:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA01388 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 22:06:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with SMTP id GAA02480 ; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 06:03:38 +0100 (BST) To: Michael Smith cc: nik@blueberry.co.uk, questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: freebsd-uk In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 19 Apr 1996 11:10:27 +0930." <199604190140.LAA16940@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 06:03:37 +0100 Message-ID: <2478.829890217@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Smith wrote in message ID <199604190140.LAA16940@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>: > Gary Palmer stands accused of saying: > > It was annoying recently when a friend really wanted to move to > > FreeBSD, but it wouldn't install properly on his box. Downloaded > > slackware 3.0 of sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk and ran first time. The problem? > > A 1Gb EIDE disk that needs to be shared between DOS & UN*X. I can't be > > sure (I'm about400 miles from the machine in question), but I'm > > betting that FreeBSD couldn't hack the translation produced by the > > controller. > FreeBSD doesn't use any "translation", and IDE disks don't have "controllers" > (unless it was one of those Promise cards), they have "address decoders". > Why am I narked? Because you're bagging FreeBSD for something that's not > actually it's fault. 8) Are you sure? I've heard several reports of extremely awkward or failing FreeBSD installs. The common factor? Large IDE drives. Makes me think that there is something not right there... Gary