Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 03:20:45 -0700 From: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com> To: leafy <leafy@leafy.idv.tw> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Troubles installing 5.0-RC2 on a Thinkpad560 Message-ID: <3E1E9E7D.5000004@btc.adaptec.com> In-Reply-To: <20030109201251.R59276-100000@sasami.jurai.net> References: <20030109201251.R59276-100000@sasami.jurai.net> <3E1E9770.7030301@sics.se> <20030110100553.GA10024@leafy.idv.tw>
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leafy wrote: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:50:40AM +0100, Karl-Petter Åkesson wrote: > > >Yes modified floppies would be great. > > > >I dont really get this. When I read the installation intructions I > >understood it as that all hardware listed in HARDWARE.txt is supported > >not only by FreeBSD by it self but also available on the floppies. But > >this isnt the case or? > > > >/Kalle > > No exactly. As we are getting to support more and more hardware, 1 floppy > cannot hold a full GENERIC kernel. So if you could, installing with a > CDROM > is preferred and then get things that does not quite work to work in the > post-install stage. > > leafy > This isn't the problem in this case. The GENERIC kernel that is on the the install CDROM and floppies only supports the NEWCARD pcmcia hardware. This mostly means that it only supports pcmcia slots that can do cardbus and pccard, not the older slots that only do pccard. The latter is only supported by OLDCARD, and OLDCARD and NEWCARD are mutually exclusive in the kernel. Hopefully this will be resolved for FreeBSD 5.1. If not, I'm sure that an angry mob will be showing up in Niwot, Colorado, to deal with the problem ;-) Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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