Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 22:17:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Yaning Wang <yaning@shell.dave-world.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Need some sucessful stories Message-ID: <199705170317.WAA28704@shell.dave-world.net>
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My case: Packard Bell Legend 100CD HD1 Western Digital 2.5G, control by EZ drive HD2 Seagate 420M CDROM Matshita CDROM/Panasonic Drive CR-563(connect with a sound card) I have to use EZ drive on HD1 in order to utilize the full capacity of the disk. However, FreeBSD does not like it. It not only does not install on that disk, but also messes up Windows 95 on that disk. The only way I succeeded so far is: to divid HD2 into two part(40M:370M) and use the first part (DOS partition) to install FreeBSD into the second part. This is because FreeBSD does not recognize my CDROM. The installation is little use to me since nothing esle I can install.(can not use CDROM) Worse of all, I can not put BootMgr in HD1 (otherwise, Win95 will not boot. I guess this is caused by EZ Drive), and HD2 has to be slave (otherwise, Win95 on HD1 will not boot neither). Therefore, I simply can not select the OS I want when machine boots. Now, I selectively disconnect HD1 or HD2 to choose either Win95 or FreeBSD :-( (I tried to make HD2 as master. But its DOS partition is too small to install Win95, and HD1 (as slave) has trouble to load EZ Drive) Now I ready to give up. I am considering to have another system for FreeBSD. For all FreeBSD friends: if you have successfully installed FreeBSD 2.2.1 into your systems(with very minimum trouble), please let me know: Machine's brand name HD specification CDROM type Any other info. which might be important. In the two situations: 1. Share disk with Win95 2. FreeBSD alone. Thank you very much -- Yaning Wang ========================================================== TP Analyst Network Service, Systems Technology State Farm Insurance Companies http://homepage.dave-world.net/~yaning
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