Date: Mon, 16 Dec 96 07:52:21 CST From: gregg@cyrix.com (Greg Grohoski) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.ORG Subject: installation from dell ppro 200 / atapi CDROM support Message-ID: <9612161352.AA06106@woody.cyrix.com>
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a very experienced friend and i tried installing freebsd 2.1.5 from cdrom on a newly purchased dell xpspro 200 (pentium pro) which has a 3.2G IDE drive, 1.3G IDE drive, and a Mitsumi 12X Atapi IDE CDROM. To make a long story short we ran into several problems. 1) We first tried the install from the Mitsumi CDROM; things went fine until we tried to link in the "ports" and the install program asked for the 2nd CD. We removed the 1st CDROM and put the 2nd one in. At this point the CD ceased to work (as I recall it appeared to be hung). Eventually we installed an Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI card with a SCSI CDROM and got past this point. My questions on this issue: a) is the Mitsumi/Atapi driver known to be this flaky? b) how high is it on the priority list to become updated? 2) There were 2 DOS partitions on the 3.2G drive (windoze 95 on 1st, 2nd empty). We installed freebsd on the 1.3G drive, but wanted to put /home on the 2nd partition on the 3.2G drive. During the install process, after creating the freebsd partition on the 3.2G drive, and trying to write the new partition info to the disk, sysinstall exited with a core dump (SIGINT 11). eventually my friend was able to configure a file system on the 2nd partition and then mount /home (glad i had him around). my questions: a) is this a known bug? b) is this file system/drive configuration "risky"? i need a stable system and don't want to be breaking new ground... thanks for your help, greg
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