Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 20:49:09 -0600 From: Bryan Parkoff <blp-lds@texas.net> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Needed Help for FreeBSD v2.2.5 Message-ID: <34DBCBA4.63B46CF7@texas.net>
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Hello, I am new to FreeBSD v2.2.5. I have a complete FreeBSD manual book. I have several questions to ask. Please answer each questions. I have Sound Blaster 32 AWE PnP with ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM. Why FreeBSD has only two IDE controller cards on both IRQ 14 and IRQ 15? I mean that it supports first and second IDE controller cards. Sound Blaster 32 AWE uses IRQ 5 and CD-ROM uses IRQ 10. Do I have to tell FreeBSD to use third IDE controller card? Or I can change from second IDE controller card IRQ 15 to IRQ 10 and 0x170 address to 0x168. I am sure that it will work. My hard disk drive has 2484 cylinders, 16 heads, and 63 sectors. Should I change disk geometry because FreeBSD does not support more than 1024 cylinders? Like 621 cylinders, 64 heads, and 63 sectors? I am not sure which User, X-User, Developer, X-Developer, all other software to be installed. Can you please advise me to choose the best installation? I read chapter seven and chapter eight in the complete FreeBSD manual book. I am trying to install, but error message says that file is not found. Look at below. # cd /usr # for i in /cdrom/XF86331/X331*.tgz; do # tar xvf $i # done I do not understand why FreeBSD does not accept programming like C++ language. Please give me more information where I can use step on step installation. The complete FreeBSD manual book does not have step on step installation. Can you tell me which newsgroups are best that I can keep feedback with someone for answers. Thank you, Bryan Parkoff BLP-LDS@texas.net
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