Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 18:54:10 +0200 From: "Rufus Chapman (home)" <rufusc@iafrica.com> To: "'questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: FreeBSD 226 on Jaz drive Message-ID: <01BD6644.76D7B7E0.rufusc@iafrica.com>
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Hi there After the article on FreeBSD in UK magazine Personal Computer World (March 1998, P258) I decided to load it on my PC as I am now using Digital UNIX on a DEC Alpha at work, and it's been over 10 years since I last used UNIX seriously. So, my wilderness years are over (?) and I thought I'd load it on my Jaz drive. I have the old 1Gb drive, not a 2Gb one, attached via Iomega's own PCI SCSI card. I can make this a bootable drive, which I have, and now I have a Jaz cartridge with a 500Mb bootable MS-DOS partition with the /bin dist of 2.2.6, and an unformatted 500Mb partition which I was going to use for UNIX. I downloaded the boot.flp and the fdimage.exe programs and created a boot floppy, and my PC boots up FreeBSD fine - BUT - it doesn't seem to recognise the SCSI adapter or the boot disc in the configuration menu - it only gives me the choice of installing on one of my two IDE discs (which are both crammed full with Windows 95 I'm afraid). The Jaz Jet PCI adapter is not one of those listed on your supported hardware list, so should I give up hope now, or can you offer any suggestions? Thanks in anticipation and Happy Easter Rufus Chapman Cape Town South Africa ------------------------------------------------------- Rufus Chapman Tel: +27 (082) 850 6247 Fax: +27 (082) 857 9109 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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