From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 6 20:41:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA28002 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 20:41:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts9-line6.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.87]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA27995 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 20:41:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA00354; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 20:41:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 20:41:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Paul Timson <100422.3102@CompuServe.COM> cc: Questions Subject: Re: Help please In-Reply-To: <960906131653_100422.3102_JHU114-1@CompuServe.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 6 Sep 1996, Paul Timson wrote: > I've got my PC all setup nicely running Windows 3.1. Good. > I subscribed to FREEBSD thinking wouldn't it be great to run a proper Operating > System on my PC.? heh heh heh...:-) > I put the FREEBSD CD in my panasonic CD drive and its visible from windows. I > can vcreate a boot floppy and boot successfully. Well of course that'll work. > However, thats as far as I get. The view screen says there are no CD drives and > no SCSI disks!!! That's no surprise. You will want to do the following: 0) Make sure the CD is in the drive. 1) At the Boot: prompt, type '-c' 2) At the config> prompt, type 'visual' 3) On 'Storage' hit enter. Scroll down to 'Matsushita ... mcd0' and make sure the settings at the bottom of the screen are right; if not, edit as necessary. 4) Remove all other devices not in your machine (by selecting them and hitting ). Type 'q' and 'y' to resume booting. > Its a clone IBM using an INTEL 486 DX2 50 CPU, 8MB RAM, adaptec 1542B scsi > controller, quantum lp240S SCSI disk, JAZZ16 (soundblaster compatible sound > card) which also hosts the Panasonic CD-ROM. I have a standard serial/Parallel > card which supports a 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives. Standard stuff. > I use MSCDEX to make the CD visible. The DOS stuff doesn't apply. > OH AND I'D BETTER JUST SAY THAT I OBTAINED THE PC SECOND HAND ABOUT 2 YEARS AGO > AND HAVE NO MANUALS ON THE ADAPTEC CONTROLLER..... My guess is that one of the other drivers is chomping on the 'aha' driver which runs your Adaptec. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major