Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 14:40:27 MST From: steve@khoros.unm.edu (Steven Jorgensen) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Disk config problem Message-ID: <9412272140.AA08469@borris.khoros.unm.edu>
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Sorry if this is the wrong list to post this to. I'm trying to get FreeBSD 2.0 installed and configured on my system. I'm almost there, but I have a few problems remaining. Note that I am installing from the CDROM from Walnut Creek. 1. I'm trying to install the boot records correctly so that I can boot msdos and freebsd from the harddisk, but I can't seem to find a configuration that works. I have 3 SCSI disks attached to my Adaptec 1542CF, and here is how I have them set up: disk 0 is a 1.7GB disk totally dedicated to freebsd. I have set up this disk with one fdisk partition holding the whole disk, and this partition is split into /, swap, /usr, and /user. This setup works great to boot freebsd. disk 1 is a 200meg disk with msdos 6.2 on it. disk 2 is a 1.7 GB disk split between msdos and freebsd (3 fdisk partitions are msdos, and 1 fdisk is a single freebsd partition I use for extra storage space) Now, if I set my adaptec to have disk 0 ignore the bios scan, it will boot dos correctly. If I tell disk 0 to NOT ignore the bios scan it booted freebsd. This was rather annoying, so I tried to install the boot menu on disk 0. Now it offers me a menu of freebsd or "disk 2". So, I select freebsd, and it just reboots the machine from scratch. If I select disk 2, it comes back with a "missing operating system" which just isn't true. I checked the FAQ before installing, and it mentioned that the mapping of disk > 1GB didn't work correctly, so it has been off during the entire install procedure. I am just about at the end of things I know to try, so I'm mailing to this list. Any suggestions? Note that this machine previously had a different unix on it, and I installed the boot menu on disk 1, and told disk 0 to ignore the bios scan. Thus dos wouldn't even know about disk 0, and the boot menu just told disk 0 to boot directly. I'd prefer this method the most, but when I used the floppy to boot sd(0,a)/kernel with disk 0 ignoring the bios scan, it gave me a rather bizarre error. 2. I also trying to set up my slip connection using startslip. I read the slip.FAQ, but it appearently uses seyon or kermit to initiate the connection to the other modem, and then uses slattach. This method works for me, but it requires that I be at home and start up the connection by hand. I'd rather use startslip to start it from my /etc/rc file on bootup. The slip.FAQ doesn't even mention this program, so I assume it was written before this program existed. I've played extensively with startslip, because it had some poor assumptions about what the login prompt would look like from the host computer, but it still has some remaining problems, and I believe they are related to the fact that the tty my modem is on is not in clocal mode by default. When I run kermit and set my tty to the one my modem is on, I can execute startslip and it will dial the remote host, and connect the slip connect correctly. However, if I just use startslip alone, it hangs when trying to open the tty with my modem on it. stty -a tells me the only difference is that kermit puts the tty in clocal mode. So I tried setting clocal via stty, and that doesn't appear to do anything. I also tried changing startslip to open the port nonblocking. This gives me a valid file descriptor, but doesn't actually allow me to read or write to the port. I would prefer just to set that port to clocal by default if that's possible. If not, can someone tell me how to do it from startslip similar to the way kermit must do it? (I couldn't find this code in kermit) 3. Finally, I'm trying to set up my printcap to print to my Deskjet 560c printer. I don't have my printcap entry available right now, but I'm pretty sure it's set up correct (I had an example to work from.) The problem is that when I lpr a file, takes the file does nothing. No error is printed in the printer log, and no error is given to stderr. I'm using the apsfilter script to preprocess the file for my printer, and I suspect that may be the problem. However, when I send a file to this script by itself, and redirect the output to my parallel port device, it seems to print just fine. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? If you'd like to see the printcap, I'll email it tonight when I get home. Wow, this got long. :) Thanks in advance for any help. Steve -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Steven Jorgensen | Khoral Research Inc. steve@khoros.unm.edu | 6001 Indian School, Suite 200 (505) 837-6500 | Albuquerque, NM 87110 ------------------------+------------------------------------ This Space for Rent. | URL: http://www.khoros.unm.edu -------------------------------------------------------------
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