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Date:      Mon, 27 Jul 1998 12:20:07 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
To:        Josh <josh2@marvin.albury.net.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cam worked, how to get system onto SCSI disks?
Message-ID:  <19980727122007.A10907@ucb.crimea.ua>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980727175825.josh2@marvin.albury.net.au>; from Josh on Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 05:42:06PM %2B1000
References:  <XFMail.980727175825.josh2@marvin.albury.net.au>

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On Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 05:42:06PM +1000, Josh wrote:
> Hi I wrote in regarding cam last week. I got it to install and
> compiled a kernel OK. Now I need to get the system onto the SCSI disks.
> Its an onboard aic7895 thats causing the grief! The kernel can see the 
> 2 scsi disks OK. 
> BUT I am having trouble getting the things created properly. If I use
> /stand/sysinstall it only sees sd0 and sd1. Not ideal and in frustration
> I tried it and it rebooted the machine :-)
> Using the instructions on this page:-
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook104.html#156
> 
> I managed to get a partition rda0a to mounted on /mnt and it appears
> to work. However I am not 100% happy and would appreciate any advice
> on the matter. If this works as I hope I intend to pax the idea partitions
> up and write them onto the SCSI (9Gig) drive, remove the idea and pray!
> 
> If anyone has a comment please do as I am feeling my way!
> 
> Josh
> 

There is a CAM boot floppy available at
http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/cam-boot/

Regards,
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