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Date:      Wed, 5 Jul 2000 14:54:23 +1000
From:      Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au>
To:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, SoftGuit8@aol.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hard drive for Free BSD
Message-ID:  <00070514562303.00335@dannyh.freebsd.org>
References:  <20000704194243.A8135@physics.iisc.ernet.in>

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Solution :-

- 1)  You have to goto the BIOS and modify your HD settings to LBA ( I believe
from memory)

-2) You can either use the "which" or the "whereis" command to find stuff such
as perl.

eg>- whereis vi or which vi

Looking forward to yourfeedback.

dannyh

dannyh@idx.com.au


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n Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> >    I have tried to download the Free BSD or even a partition on my Maxtor 
> > 27.2 gig harddrive and had absolutely no luck.....
> 
> What exactly are you trying to do?  The default install proces? And
> what error are you getting?  Is the install failing, or is the
> machine not booting afterwards, or is it something else?
> 
> > 2) I am used to the "vi editor" But do not see that it is incorporated into 
> > the Free BSD ....am I wrong...or am I just not looking in the right places. 
> 
> It's there in the usual place, /usr/bin.
> 
> Rahul.
> 
> 
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