Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 22:28:08 -0400 From: Jim Amy <jimamy@io.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD CD Installation Message-ID: <31E5B838.1177@io.org>
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Greetings, I'm a recent purchaser of the FreeBSD 2.1 from Walnut Creek CD-ROM. It turns out that installing FreeBSD is far more difficult and involved than I had anticipated. I have a few questions I hope you can help me with. 1. On page 26 of the Running FreeBSD manual it says I need to jumper my CD-ROM as a slave device. My CD is the only device on my secondary IDE (ATAPI) interface and when I jumper it as a slave device the CD-ROM drivers will not accept a slave without a master. In the process my CD-ROM drivers defaulted back to real device drivers and I had to reload Windows 95 to get the CD-ROM as well as my IDE Windows 95 drivers back. Is it necessary to jumper the CD as a slave device and if so, how can I do that without also having a master? 2. The other issue I did not realize when I ordered FreeBSD is the need to load it in a partition within the first 500 MB of disk space (or 1024 cylinders). Is this always the case with EIDE drives? I am using a Western Digital AC31200 1.2MB HD. Your advice is greatly appreciated. Jim jimamy@io.org -- ************************************************************************* Jim Amy jimamy@io.org To know life's purpose, http://www.io.org/~jimamy/ We must know life's Creator! Fax: (905) 640-2561 *************************************************************************
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