Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:21:55 -0400 From: "Blair Wagner" <blair.wagner@cci-triad.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: FreeBSD new install Message-ID: <3D2F3A62.971EFF62@ccitriad.com>
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2 questions with installing FreeBSD 4.6 1) my system has a 3Com EtherLink XL (3C905) NIC. The doc suggests this is supported and uses driver xl(4). However, I see no such options when selecting drivers in the installations kernel configuration screen. I can choose from: IBM EtherJet CS89x0... (cs0) NE1000 NE2000 3C503... (ed0) Fujitsu MB86960A... (fe0) AT&T Starlan 10 EN100, 3C507 NI5210... (ie0) Isolan NE2100... (lnc0) SMC/Mhz... (sn0) where is xl0 ??? Which should I select 2) I've got Win2K on my primary IDE controller's master disk (40GB). I'm installing FreeBSD on my secondary IDE controller's master disk (20GB). I've installed BootEasy using the instructions in the FAQ "3.9 Windows 95/98 killed my boot manager! How do I get it back?" However, now when booting, I get the infamous "F?" default from the bootmanager. I've read everywhere that this is likey due to the old "wrong disk geometry" problem. But, where do I tell BootEasy about disk geometry? Asking the BIOS, the disk geo for my disks is: WD400BB - 1024 cyl, 255 heads, 63 sectors, CHS=8422MB capacity=40020MB WD200BB - 1024 cyl, 255 heads, 63 sectors, CHS=8422MB capacity=20020MB Asking Westerndigitals Web site, the disk geo for my disks is: WD400BB 16383 cyl, 4 phys heads (16 logical heads), 63 sectors WD200BB 16383 cyl, 2 phys heads (16 logical heads), 63 sectors Asking pfdisk.exe, the disk geo for my disks is: Partition table on device: 0 (this is the WD400BB 40GB disk) geometry 1024 255 63 (cyls heads sectors) # ID First(cyl) Last(cyl) Name # start, length (sectors) 1 7 0 4863 OS/2 # 63, 78140097 # note: last(1): phys=(1023,254,64) logical=(4863,254,63) 2 0 0 0 empty # 0, 0 3 0 0 0 empty # 0, 0 4 0 0 0 empty # 0, 0 Partition table on device: 1 (this is the WD200BB 20GB disk) geometry 1024 255 63 (cyls heads sectors) # ID First(cyl) Last(cyl) Name # start, length (sectors) 1 12 0 2433 unkno # 63, 39102147 # note: last(1): phys=(385,254,64) logical=(2433,254,63) 2 0 0 0 empty # 0, 0 3 0 0 0 empty # 0, 0 4 0 0 0 empty # 0, 0 NOTE: I used WindowsME's fdisk to partition the WD200BB, and I used Windows2000's fdisk to partition the WD400BB. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ William Blair Wagner : Education is not always knowing the answer CCITRIAD : ..but rather knowing where to look for it! blair.wagner@ccitriad.com Senior Development Engineer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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