Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 21:58:53 -0800 From: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: "The Hermit Hacker" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Arcady Genkin" <a.genkin@utoronto.ca> Subject: Re: Before I return FreeBSD to the store... Message-ID: <013f01bf528a$f3fa60e0$0400fea9@JADE> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912300151190.880-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "The Hermit Hacker" <scrappy@hub.org> To: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; "Arcady Genkin" <a.genkin@utoronto.ca> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 9:52 PM Subject: Re: Before I return FreeBSD to the store... > On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Arcady Genkin" <a.genkin@utoronto.ca> > > To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 9:28 PM > > Subject: Re: Before I return FreeBSD to the store... > > > > > > > Soulofwolf899@cs.com writes: > > > > > > > I am happy to give FreeBSD a chance to prove itself to me but I > > cannot unless > > > > I can install it! If you have not fixed it in this version then > > please keep > > > > my e-mail on file so you can notify me when you have. > > > > > > This is quite amusing. May we also pay you for using FreeBSD? ;^) > > > > > > > ps - after spending an hour of my time moving the blasted pin on > > my CD-ROM to > > > > every possible combination, without of course the manual, in order > > to make a > > > > "slave", I gave up and I have no desire to do it again. Make sure > > to let me > > > > know when FreeBSD is as easy to install as ANY of my LINUX > > packages; > > > > including RedHat 6.1 and TurboLinux 4. > > > > > > What does the CD-ROM's jumper have to do with installing an OS? If > > it > > > worked with other OS's, then it should be deemed workable, and let > > the > > > jumper alone. > > > > It has a lot to do with it. Some drives aren't detected when they are > > the only device and jumpered as a slave on the secondary IDE channel. > > A couple don't want to be the master on the secondary IDE channel but > > work just fine as a slave behind the HD on the primary IDE channel. My > > Teac is the master on the secondary IDE channel. The slave on the > > secondary channel is a WD 3.1GB HD. > > Read his second paragraph...Soulofwolf stated that Linux installed fine, > so the CDrom (unless FreeBSD is doing something weird) was already > configured properly... FreeBSD has a problem when the CDROM is misconfigured. You can't have a slave without a master. It also has a problem with some when they are the only drive and the master. Some of the other OS'es cope with a misconfigured drive. This has been an on going thread since 3.1 or 3.2. Kent . Kent > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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