Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 20:07:32 -0400 From: Ben Compton <peabody@naxs.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install Problems Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980601200732.0095c630@mail.naxs.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980601141027.15962e-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> References: <3.0.5.32.19980530172624.0093ca60@mail.naxs.com>
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At 02:11 PM 6/1/98 -0700, you wrote: Thanks for responding to my post. It's nice to know that help is always just an e-mail away when it come to FreeBSD. I tried what you suggested and it is almost impossible to move the CD-ROM to the primary chain with my exsisting config with out having to purchase another IDE cable and additional mounting hardware. The people at Dell make it real pain to move things around inside the case (one of the IDE cables is about 1/2 the length of what I have seen in the past). What I can't figure out for the life of me is why BSD will not work on my present config but RedHat Linux detects EVERYTHING and installs flawlessly. I'd happily kill my Linux install in favor of a BSD install if I could make BSD run on my system as is. I hope you have another suggestion or two because I'm at the end of my rope. Oh by the way I found this really neat utility that allows you to boot from different partitions using NT's OS Loader. It allowed me to install RedHat Linux on my slave HD and boot to it without using a bootdisk and without making any changes to my master HD except for a little 512 file that it places in the root directory on my master HD. The program is called bootpart and it can be found at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/gvollant/bootpart.htm And if you are interested in more infor on the NT OS loader itself that can be found at http://www.windowscentral.com/features/howto/setup/ Thanks again for for your help. Hopefully the info I gave you will be of some help and hopefully you'll have another suggestion or two for me try. Thanks. >On Sat, 30 May 1998, Ben Compton wrote: > >> I'm having problems installing FreeBSD 2.2.6 on my Dell computer. It >> seems that there is some problem accessing my secondary IDE chain. My CD >> ROM is the master unit on my secondary chain and I cannot get the installer >> to recongize it. It is an ATAPI IDE CD ROM so I know that is not the >> proble. > >On the contrary, that IS the problem. ATAPI does NOT probe consistently, >and some drives are downright proprietary. Try moving it to the slave >position on the primary controller. > >> I would also like some info about booting FreeBSD from a slave HD with the >> Windows NT 4.0 OS Loader. I have NT installed on my master HD and I want >> to put BSD on my slave HD and would like to be able to use both without >> having to use a boot disk to run BSD. > >From what I understand the NT bootloader can't boot off of other disks. > >> Oh and I would also like to know if anyone has attempted to set up X >> Windows using a Diamond Fire GL 1000 Pro Video Card with the Permedia II >> Chipset. I'm really new to the world of UNIX and I need all the help I >> can get. Thanks in advance for the help. > >You need to get an X server from www.suse.com, but otherwise you can use >XFree86. > >Doug White | University of Oregon >Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant >http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > > ********************************************************************** "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." - Jeremy S. Anderson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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