From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Oct 25 0:45: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30C8637B403 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 00:45:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA74475; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 00:40:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 00:40:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Jens Richter Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q please In-Reply-To: <3BD70ECA.5070900@callnetuk.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Jens Richter wrote: > Hello > I'm absolutely new to FreeBSD and I wonder if there is a complete HCL > available. Eg, I'm running an IDE-ATA100 /RAID PCI-Adapter (HTP 370) > and I could not find any information wether FreeBSD would boot or not. > At the moment I use Linux 2.4.4-10 and it works. Thank's for a link. > Jens > You can create the boot floppies as described on www.freebsd.org and boot them, and see if they work. The kernel on the boot floppies has all the RAID and ATA controllers included, so this is a reasonable test. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: mall.daemonnews.org and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message