From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 22 06:59:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA09773 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 06:59:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from pcdrosos.abrdr.dreo.dnd.ca (drosos@[131.136.36.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA09767 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 06:59:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from drosos@localhost) by pcdrosos.abrdr.dreo.dnd.ca (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA00123; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 09:59:18 -0500 Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 09:59:17 -0500 (EST) From: Tasos Drosopoulos To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Request installation help Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello FreeBSD users, My current setup: Pentium 90 PC, 128MB RAM 3 hard drives: 1st IDE (400MB) for DOS 2nd EIDE (1.2GB) made a 900 MB FreeBSD partition 3rd SCSI (4.3GB) devoted to Slackware 3 / Linux 3Com3 ethernet card Linux LILO on the MBR I've been happily using Linux or the past 2 yrs. A couple of weeks ago I got my SCSI hard drive and now have space to try out FreeBSD. I downloaded the minimum requirements (disks and BIN) for the March 4 2.1.0-RELEASE, to try it out. At first I tried to make a partition on the SCSI drive, but apparently Slackware wanted the > 1GB DOS option enabled on the Buslogic 956C controller card that I have, while FreeBSD doesn't. Anyway, I moved all my Slackware stuff on the SCSI drive, made a FreeBSD partition on my second EIDE drive and installed (I think succesfully) the minimal distribution. I say I think, because I don't seem to be able to boot into it!! My questions: 1. I assume from a response to a previous question that I don't need a boot floppy. However, the installation bootdisk seems to boot directly with the default installation kernel. Entering a ? as fast as I can at the boot prompt to see what, if anything, I should input doesn't seem to work. What should I input anyway if FreeBSD is on my second hard drive? 2. OK, I went several times through the Novice installation procedure and asked for installing the default boot manager. From what I understand I should get a prompt when booting to choose the OS I want. This doesn't happen. LILO is still there. Do I have to explicitly take it out? Is it not overwritten? 3. What I want, is to be able to boot DOS, FreeBSD or Linux from a boot manager, either LILO or the FreeBSD one. Does anyone have such a setup and can offer me some advice? 4. Finally, from the installation procedure, I should be able to set up an ethernet connection to install the rest of the FreeBSD packages ( I think). I install the BIN now from my DOS partition. The options I get are for serial and parallel port connections. My 3com3 ethernet card doesn't seem to be recognized. Am I missing any network packages? Or do I have to use the DOS partition for everything? Come on guys. Help me out here! Thanks is advance. ********************************************************** * Anastasios (Tasos) Drosopoulos * * phone: (613) 998-2859 / FAX: (613) 990-8906 * * email: Tasos.Drosopoulos@dreo.dnd.ca * * URL : http://www.dreo.dnd.ca * **********************************************************