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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!nwnexus!news.halcyon.com!halcyon!laconner From: laconner@halcyon.halcyon.com (LaConner Third Grade) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD install problems - help! Date: 22 Sep 1994 19:15:51 GMT Organization: NWNEXUS, Inc. - Making Internet Easy Lines: 29 Message-ID: <35sl57$7vc@news.halcyon.com> References: <35qk5i$8bg@news.halcyon.com> <35s2nr$5fn@newstand.syr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: halcyon.com In article <35s2nr$5fn@newstand.syr.edu>, Shawn M Carey <smcarey@rodan.syr.edu> wrote: >In article <35qk5i$8bg@news.halcyon.com> laconner@halcyon.halcyon.com (LaConner Third Grade) writes: >>Help! I'm trying to install FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 R on a 486Dx2/66 >>with a BT545 controller, Micropolis 2217 (1.7GB) drive, and >>16MB ram. The system has an existing 600MB DOS partition. >> >>I have tried turning the BT545's geometry translation on >>and doing the install (after reformatting the disk of course) >>and I've tried it with it off as well. in both cases I get >>the following message during install (I'm using the kcopy_ah >>kernal): >> > >Hmm... Why not use the kcopy_bt kernel? I'm surprised that the >aha driver would even control a bt card enough to get you where >you are. > > >-Shawn Carey > > Because the README.1ST file says that if I have a BT545S controller card I should use the kcopy_ah kernal? Is this a typo? Arlen Fletcher fletcher@techcenter.paccar.com