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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!netcomsv!zygot!dlb!megatest!albrecht From: albrecht@megatest.com (Dave Albrecht) Subject: FreeBSD 1.1 CDROM Message-ID: <CqyxzJ.CGn@megatest.com> Organization: Megatest Corporation Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 09:29:09 GMT Lines: 32 I picked up the FreeBSD 1.1 cdrom from a local shop here and spent part of the weekend trying to install it. Just thought I'd feedback some comments on the process etc. First comment I have is that there needs to be more doc ala. the floppy installation doc for the cd. The back of the CD case trumpets all about a multi-OS boot utility but it took me quite a bit of poking around to find out (by looking at the floppy installation guide) that it was this cryptically named utility in the tools subdirectory that had no associated doc file whatsoever. Also, it would be nice to know what exactly it is that the cd installation installs i.e. which of the bin, src, ... is installed by the process. That said the installation process in general went pretty smoothly. I attempted to install this to a 320M western digital scsi drive which is BIOS mapped as drive C: (I go into the CMOS setup and disable the IDE drive) by an Adaptec 1542B. The installation works fine, however, after installation I can't boot the drive. I can boot the floppy and tell it hd(0,a)/386bsd or some such and it will boot the drive but it won't boot directly. What doc there is suggests there might be problems with translated drives. Well that is all fine and good but frankly I have no idea if the adaptec is somehow translating this drive and if it is I sure as hell have no idea what parameters it is using. I looked for the utility that was mentioned in the cd guide as being usable under DOS to dump the translation values. Alak and alas the cupboard was bare, i.e. the utility isn't in the utils directory. I am a bit at a loss. Thanks for any help. David Albrecht