From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 19 9:33:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F32AF37B401 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 09:33:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from stevenfettig.com ([12.76.85.168]) by mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020619163309.CXMT4559.mtiwmhc22.worldnet.att.net@stevenfettig.com>; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:33:09 +0000 Message-ID: <3D10B244.60301@stevenfettig.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:33:08 -0500 From: Steve Fettig User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Carroll, D. (Danny)" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.6-RELEASE & VMware 3.0 References: <6C506EA550443D44A061432F1E92EA4C6C52B6@ing.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Carroll, D. (Danny) wrote: > :I tried what you mentioned in VMWare (my version is 3.1) and > :still have > :problems with it locking up - not in the same place, but same result > :(even using SCSI). You mentioned a "recent ATA" problem, but I don't > :understand whether you are relating to FreeBSD 4.6 or VMWare... > :Just curious. > > Try giving direct access to the CDRom drive.. Ant turning on DMA access > for the Cd-Rom in FreeBSD.. > That is what worked for me. > Pardon my ignorance if it really shines through on this one: How do you turn on DMA for the CD-Rom in FreeBSD if one can't get past the part where the installation probes for devices (and locks up at that point)? I don't have the same problem with 4.5 -- it installs without any problems. > Do a search for hw.ata in this list and -questions... There has been > lots of talk about it. > > What is the Host OS? > > -D Tho host OS is Windows 2000 Server. It's my R&D box for Windows and I also test some stuff using VMWare when I run out of R&D boxes for FreeBSD. Not my first choice, but it is nice for running multiple OS's. As a side note - at this point I'm not all that worried about running 4.6 To be honest, I decided to install it on my R&D box along with a laptop I am trying to revive only to do ipsec and backup testing... I don't see what advantage 4.6 gives me over 4.5 for what I am doing... Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message