From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 10 10:45:50 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B08237B401 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:45:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 44D6843ED8 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:45:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 24611 invoked by uid 1000); 10 Jan 2003 18:45:48 -0000 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:45:48 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson To: =?X-UNKNOWN?Q?Karl-Petter_=C5kesson?= Cc: David Coder , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Troubles installing 5.0-RC2 on a Thinkpad560 In-Reply-To: <20030110114329.F59276-100000@sasami.jurai.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Karl-Petter Åkesson wrote: > > Yes modified floppies would be great. > > > > I dont really get this. When I read the installation intructions I > > understood it as that all hardware listed in HARDWARE.txt is supported > > not only by FreeBSD by it self but also available on the floppies. But > > this isnt the case or? > > Its supported by 'OLDCARD' which isn't on the install floppies. > > ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/5.0-RC2/ ... which is a kernel option (not module or tunable) which is mutually exclusive of NEWCARD. The kernel on the floppy AND cdrom is only copmiled with NEWCARD, thus any pccard slots not supported by NEWCARD cannot be accessed in 5.0 without building a custom kernel to install from. Perhaps we should provide a bootstrap image with OLDCARD as part of the release process for now? -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message