From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 3 19:51:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA29433 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 19:51:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cs.rice.edu (cs.rice.edu [128.42.1.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA29423 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 19:51:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from asia.cs.rice.edu (asia.cs.rice.edu [128.42.1.167]) by cs.rice.edu (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id VAA16541 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 21:51:14 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from cobbe@localhost) by asia.cs.rice.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA28047; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 21:51:13 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 21:51:13 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199610040251.VAA28047@asia.cs.rice.edu> From: Richard Cobbe To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: General install question Reply-To: cobbe@cs.rice.edu Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sincerest apologies if these are FAQs, but I couldn't find them in the mailing list archives or any of the other docs at www.freebsd.org. I am not currently running any version of FreeBSD, but I'd like to install it (2.1.5-RELEASE, fwiw) and check it out. I have 2 IDE drives, and I'm planning on installing BSD on the 3rd partition of the 2nd drive (both are on the first IDE cable). I have been told that the kernel which is installed as part of the process expects to find itself on the first IDE device, and the system won't boot (at least, won't boot BSD) if it's not there. So, I have two questions: 1) Is this in fact the case? If so, can I get around it by swapping the drives, installing, recompiling the kernel to look for itself on the second device (and changing /etc/fstab), and moving the driveFrom owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 3 20:04:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA01027 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 20:04:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from s4.elec.uq.edu.au (s4.elec.uq.edu.au [130.102.96.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA01017 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 1996 20:04:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from clary@localhost) by s4.elec.uq.edu.au (8.7.5/8.6.12) id NAA13703 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 13:03:51 +1000 (EST) From: Clary Harridge Message-Id: <199610040303.NAA13703@s4.elec.uq.edu.au> Subject: 2.15 release boot.flp missing adaptec 2940AU driver To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 13:03:50 +1000 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi I have tried both the 2.1.5 RELEASE and 2.2-960801-SNAP floppies. They seem to be missing the ahc driver which seems to be the one required for an Adaptec 2940AU controller that I have on a pentium. Maybe the probe is failing. I can recognise my 3 SCSI drives using DOS. Hardware 120MHz pentium Adaptec AHA-2940AU. Seagate ST51080N 2 x Seagate ST15150N 2 x DEC etherworks PCI controller Can anyone please throw any light on this? -- regards Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Clary Harridge University of Queensland, QLD, Australia, 4072 Phone: +61-7-3365-3636 Fax: +61-7-3365-4999 INTERNET: clary@elec.uq.edu.au