Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 04:15:04 -0400 (EDT) From: freebsd <freebsd@computer.net> To: Eric Patterson <ericp@ro.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: U2W? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980725040247.3262A-100000@ns.computer.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980724112214.1890A-100000@sh1.ro.com>
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On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Eric Patterson wrote: > Um, me too. I have been trying to install freebsd > on a new machine with an ASUS P2B-S for a couple of days. The best docs I > have found are at http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/cam-boot. I have had some > limited success by following those instructions. If I get it working, I > promise to write a brief howto an send it here or whereever is > appropriate. We got it working on 2 out of 3 machines. For some reason lowleveling these drives helped. We had two 9 gig and two 4 gig WD Ultra fast drives. Also got it working on a Segate 4 gig narrow but, that was for testing/troubleshooting. One of the WD 4 gig has some bad sectors so back it went. Anyway I low leveled all drives. Set the terminators and id to 0 for each drive (only one per machine). Got the floppy image from ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/cam/2.2CAM-19980716-SNAP/floppies/ booted from the floppy as normal. skipped kernel config (for now anyway) and did the rest of the freebsd install as normal. I did on 2 of the 3 machines change the release name to cam/2.2-cam (whatever it was just inserted cam/ to the beggining of it. Reason I did this was so it could find the install dir on 3rd USA site (the primary is so SLOW for me). Otherwise it was a fairly standard install. Try the lowlevel and getting it from the 3rd USA site. Would be interested in your results. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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