Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 01:57:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Charlie Root <cr@krivis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: couple of questions from a new user Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980623015401.15375a-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <358DC7D3.8E259C24@krivis.com>
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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
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