Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 17:48:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Kjell-=?iso-8859-1?Q?=C5ke Ahlin <Kjell-Ake.Ahlin@vfak.slu.se> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation of FreeBSD cannot get started Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960728174609.381I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <31ED24B8.DED@vfak.slu.se>
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On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, Kjell-=3D?iso-8859-1?Q?=3DC5ke Ahlin wrote: > I would like to know if it is possible to get the latest 2.1.5-release of= FreeBSD from > Walnut Creek CDROM - or should I go for a 2.2-SNAP-release instead? Do yo= u think it=20 > could solve my problem? Or could a later release of a boot floppy do the = trick? 2.1.5 hasn't come back from the press yet, but it should shortly. In the meantime you can download it from ftp.freebsd.org. 2.2-SNAPs are built from -current; don't use them unless you need them. =20 > I don=B4t seem to get anywhere trying to install the 2.1.0-release of Fre= eBSD, which I got=20 > on a CD from Walnut Creek this spring. The boot disk seems to recognize t= he NCR 53C810=20 > PCI SCSI-controller (PCI-SC200-card) on the ASUSTeK P55SP4-motherboard (l= atest BIOS=20 > version) and also the two HP Surestore SCSI-harddisks (C3724, 1 GB and C3= 725, 2 GB)as=20 > well as the Iomega Jaz-drive (1 GB) and the Toshiba CD-player (XM-3701B). >=20 > BUT: In the installation program I can=B4t access anything but the Jaz-di= sk (sd2 - only a=20 > partition table of this is presented, no disk choices before that), altho= ugh I have been=20 > able to boot and install WIN95, OS/2 Warp 3 and Win-NT 3.51 from primary = partitions on=20 > sd0 and sd1 without any problems. I use the OS/2 Boot Manager. So you are trying to install to the Jaz drive? Is it found in the boot probe on startup?=20 Doug White | University of Oregon =20 Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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