From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 29 21:52:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat200.60.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.200.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C982A14F73 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 21:52:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA25077; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 01:52:36 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 01:52:35 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Kent Stewart Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Arcady Genkin Subject: Re: Before I return FreeBSD to the store... In-Reply-To: <013501bf5288$1e28e650$0400fea9@JADE> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Kent Stewart wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Arcady Genkin" > To: > 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... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message