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From: viren@cy.cs.olemiss.edu (Viren R. Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: FreeBSD: kernel config question
Date: 17 Oct 1993 19:42:36 GMT
Organization: University of Mississippi, Dept. of Computer Science
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machine info: 486DX2-66 EISA motherboard, 16M RAM (soon to be 32M),
DTC 3290 SCSI controller, 1.2GB toshiba SCSI drive, 1.2 and 1.44 M
floppy drives, SMC ethernet Elite16 card, generic multi I/O card, VESA
local bus graphics card.
I just installed FreeBSD on the above machine( with help from the
FreeBSD team -- thanx guys). After i managed to configure my EISA
system properly, the installation went just great! Thanx to all the
FreeBSD people out there -- i just loved it.
First, if anyone has an EISA system with similar (or not-so-similar)
configuration, could you please mail your config file to me?
I now have two questions :
1> Should i reconfigure my kernel? its working just fine right now.
2> some questions about the config file itself:
a> Do i change the following line
config "386bsd" root on wd0 swap on wd0 and sd0
to
config "386bsd" root on sd0 swap on wd0 and sd0
^^^
since my drive is a SCSI drive, and i don't have wd0?
b> do i need the line
controller isa0
since i dont have an IDE controller (or is that line for
something else?).
c> Do i need any of the wd stuff (controller, disks)? do i need the
'controller ahb0' line?
d> Also on boot up, the following line appears:
is0 not probed due to I/O address conflict with ed0 at 0x280
what does that mean?
e> after i do
% cd /sys/i386/conf
% config FIRST
% cd /sys/compile/FIRST
% make depend
% make
do i need to do anything else????
(i know, i know, thats more than two question -- sorry) :-)
Thanx in advance
viren
viren@cy.cs.olemiss.edu
"FreeBSD is a really cool system, and the installation is soooooo
easy" --- viren shah, October 15, 1993
--
viren shah $ " "
viren@cy.cs.olemiss.edu $ -- viren shah 23rd july 1993