Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:30:39 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: "John D. Reeve" <reevejd@mchsi.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SCSI not found during install - help! Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20070123162726.025a1d98@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <001f01c73f2d$9a592480$75f2ce0c@GATEWAY> References: <001f01c73f2d$9a592480$75f2ce0c@GATEWAY>
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You can play with your BIOS settings. In the last part of the installer it
will give a list of found drives. You should be using a generic kernel for
the install.
However in all this, with only 32 MB RAM, it seems a bit pointless. You
would do better spending a few dollars for a more current system board you
can add some memory to, as you should have at LEAST 64 MB, but I rarely
have a system with less than 512 MB if not more.
-Derek
At 02:32 PM 1/23/2007, John D. Reeve wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a system consisting of an Ampro
>Littleboard 486 with 32 Mb ram, a built-in Adaptec 6360 SCSI controller,
>an 18.2 Gb Quantum Atlas III SCSI drive (50 pin narrow), a 256 Mb IDE
>flash drive containing MS-DOS, and an IDE CD drive. I want FreeBSD to
>take over the entire SCSI drive. The SCSI drive has been low-level
>formatted using the software that came with the Ampro for the Adaptec
>controller. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.1 using three floppies (boot,
>kernel 1, kernel 2) and CD's containing the rest of the system.
>
>Here is the problem. After booting with the floppies and getting to the
>point where I'm supposed to select the drive for FreeBSD, the install
>program doesn't see the SCSI drive. It does see the IDE flash drive. The
>odd thing is that under MS-DOS, the fdisk program finds the SCSI drive and
>allows me to partition it, at least a 230 Mb piece of it. I can format
>this piece for DOS and copy files to it, so the drive does seem to be
>working. I have the BIOS configured to see the SCSI as the second hard
>drive in the system. According to the documentation with the Ampro, the
>BIOS can supposedly handle drives of this size or larger.
>
>Thanks for any help!
>
>Cheers,
>John R.
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