Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 11:01:23 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Tasos Drosopoulos <drosos@abrdr.dreo.dnd.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request installation help Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960322105313.1431F-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960322092751.113A-100000@pcdrosos.abrdr.dreo.dnd.ca>
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On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Tasos Drosopoulos wrote: > > 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. 2.1.0 was released in January. You didn't get the 960303-SNAP, did you? Because that one is broken. > 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. Shouldn't make a difference. That may cause a geometry problem though... > 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? For your 2nd one listed above, you need to type into Boot: wd(1,a)/kernel That will specify to boot your second IDE disk. > 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? No, it's installed on your second disk. :-) You will need to install it manually to get it on the first disk. You can also stick with LILO and just tell it about your FreeBSD partition. (I haven't used it so I can't say how to do that.) > 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? You need to: 1. Use the 3C5X9CFG utility to disable PnP (plug & pray :) and set the card to an available irq and base address. IRQ 10/IO 300 are common choices. Then boot FreeBSD, putting a -c option on the boot: prompt, and configure ep0 to those settings. for your setup, you'd type: wd(1,a)/kernel -c That should drop you to config mode. Hope this straightens you out. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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