Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 12:12:30 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: gpalmer@freebsd.org (Gary Palmer) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, nik@blueberry.co.uk, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-uk Message-ID: <199604191912.MAA08715@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <2478.829890217@palmer.demon.co.uk> from "Gary Palmer" at Apr 19, 96 06:03:37 am
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Gary Palmer writes: > 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... Generally these fall into the category of (I want to install FreeBSD past cylinder 1024, where the boot code can never, ever find it... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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