Date: Thu, 20 Jun 96 09:35:29 +0100 From: "John Richards" <john@zyqad.co.uk> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: More questions following SUCCESSFUL Installation Message-ID: <9606200835.AA21219@zyqad.co.uk>
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Hello all, Thanks for all the answers to my previous question regarding Hitachi Atapi CDrom and FreeBSD. I now have my machine up and working. The details are: Intel 486DX33 Pine Technology VESA Mbd 8MB memory - 8 * 30 pin 1MB chips 200MB Western Digital IDE HD - primary master, DOS + FreeBSD with boot manager 250MB WD IDE HD - primary slave, FreeBSD with boot manager 1.2 GB WD IDE HD - secondary master, FreeBSD Hitachi 4x Atapi CDROM - secondary slave 3.5" Floppy Pine Technology 1MB VESA Cirrus graphics card Quite an old machine but it does the job. Once I got the hardware configured correctly the installation was a doddle except that I forgot to install the sources to rebuild the kernel and so had to redo part of it. It even runs X11 although it doesn't drive the 1024x768 resolution cleanly. Questions: 1. On the 200MB disk I used to have all my home directory stuff when I had 1.1.5.1 working. I appear to have remade the disklabel on this slice (stupid I know) during the installation. Is there any way I can recover the information from this disk? Currently it is mounted as two partitions /olddisk1 and /olddisk2 but both of these show as empty. Yet the disk used to have data on it and probably still does as I haven't written anything new to it (disklabel excepted). And Yes I know I should have backed up the things I wanted to keep but I didn't and I didn't intend to make a new filesystem on that slice but accidents will happen - especially if you are impatient. 2. My /etc/services file is very small having only 5 entries. Is this correct? The machine I'm writing this from - a DEC alpha 3000 has a much larger services file. I assume that once I get my FreeBSD box connected to the net I'm going to have to add the services as needed - n'est pas? 3. To get Sendmail, DNS, TCP/IP, PPP etc working do I just install the appropriate package? 4. How do I make use of the live filesystem disk? Does this mean that I don't need to install all packages that I want if I only want some occasionally? 5. Any hints about clearing up the flutter on X11 at high resolution appreciated. All help much appreciated especially to question 1. Bye John (Play Violin & Ride Bike - but not at the same time) ******************************************************************************** John Richards * email : john@zyqad.co.uk Zyqad Ltd, * Suite 25, GPT Business Park, * Technology Drive, Beeston * tel : +44 115 922 0820 NOTTINGHAM. NG9 2ND. * fax : +44 115 967 8374 ********************************************************************************
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