From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 18 02:33:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA03708 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 02:33:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA03550 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 02:30:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA06299; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 22:11:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 22:11:17 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Gert Nielsen cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: NEC 222 & FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <01BD22F8.18167280@hookturn> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Gert Nielsen wrote: > I'm a new comer to the world af FreeBSD, and I'm stil not to confident > when I'm to install a FreeBSD. BTW, 2.2.1 is old; I'd suggest finding a copy of 2.2.5 to install. > But until a few hours ago I have never had any real trouble installing > FreeBSD, but when I began to install FreeBSD on the actual server it is > to run on, there was a problem i can't figure out. > > I'm using a NEC 222 (scsi id 5, 4x speed) 3.0i, ASUS P/I-P55T2P4, Intel > 150MHz CPU, Adaptec 1542CF, Seagate Medalist 1080MB (scsi id 0), Quantum > Grand prix 4GB (scsi id1), Matrox Mill. 2MB, 3CCOM 590 NIC, Soundblaster > 16 PNP, 32 MB RAM (EDO) and FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE Equipment checks out, the SB 16 might take some massaging but otherwise a pretty standard installation. > After FreeBSD has waited for "scsi bus reseting" it detects the Seagate, > then the Quantum, then it detects the cdrom drive. The 2 linies look > like this: > > (aha0:5:): "NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:222 3.0i" type 5 removeble SCSI 2 > cd0(aha0:5:0:): CD-ROM Can't get the size Put the CDROM in the drive, *then* boot. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major