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Date:      Thu, 30 Dec 1999 01:52:35 -0400 (AST)
From:      The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca>
Subject:   Re: Before I return FreeBSD to the store...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912300151190.880-100000@thelab.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <013501bf5288$1e28e650$0400fea9@JADE>

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On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Kent Stewart wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arcady Genkin" <a.genkin@utoronto.ca>
> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> 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...




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