From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 23 01:57:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA25331 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 01:57:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA25311 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 01:57:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA28383; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 01:57:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 01:57:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Charlie Root cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: couple of questions from a new user In-Reply-To: <358DC7D3.8E259C24@krivis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Charlie Root wrote: > I finally got FreeBSD working more or less. I first tried FBSD at ver > 2.1.5 and was never able to get dialup ppp working. 2.2.2 was tried a > while back, and now 2.2.6. So, this is a big moment here! (Oddly enough, > I never had these problems with linux.) > > The first problem I had was that FreeBSD didn't like my IDE drives. The > "probing devices" msg at the begining of the install just sat there > while one of the drives was accessed constantly. Not a huge problem > since I wanted to install on a SCSI drive anyway. My laptop does this, it goes around for about a minute. > On rebooting, I attempted to re-enable the IDE drives. No go. It > wouldn't even boot. It got to Booteasy, I pressed F1, and I got a > continuous scrolling error message. IDE + SCSI == Booteasy confusion. > So, back to no IDE. And I have a FreeBSD system. Played with the sample > files in /etc/ppp and got things to work enough to get a connection. > > I do get an error message though... > > Warning: Add route failed: 0.0.0.0: errno: Network is unreachable. Normal. > I would like to get my IDE drives working. Anyone have any ideas? You'll need a smart boot manager to skip to booting your SCSI disks. > Also, does FreeBSD support vfat or ntfs? vfat: yes, in current. ntfs: no. > My vfat partitions are /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda5 in linux. Any idea what > that might translate to in FreeBSD? This slice thing is a bit foreign to > me. (Never figured it out in Solaris either.) No clue, Linux's disk arrangements are as twisted as DOS's. FreeBSD's disk arrangements are physical. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message