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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!peernews.demon.co.uk!demon!news From: map@interlog.com Subject: Installing FreeBSD with PAS on 2nd drive, not obvious X-Nntp-Posting-Host: map.interlog.com Message-ID: <D2EKqs.1An@demon.co.uk> Sender: news@demon.co.uk (Usenet Administration) Organization: Private X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.6 Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1995 16:06:27 GMT Lines: 44 The configuration that was used to install FreeBSD 2.0 was: 486 with Proaudio Spectrum 16 Logitech Bus mouse NE2000 compatible network card HD0 boots to DOS HD0 boots to FreeBSD After running Fdisk and copying the boot loader to HD0, then partitioning and labelling HD1, I initially had problems mounting HD1. The boot loader would fail after doing: Boot: hd(1,a)/kernel In the docs this was supposed to be a workaround in the 2.0 kernel to load from the 2nd or nth hard disk. The error reported was something like "missing label". To get around this I did: Boot: wd(1,a)/kernel This started the boot loader but then the PAS failed to initialize because my NE2000 was recongnize as the mcd device (mitsumi cd rom). Then I did: (this needs to be documented much, much, much better) Boot: wd(1,a)/kernel -c I disabled mcd0, mcd1, wdc1 (second hard disk controller which I do not have and uses int 15, same as my PAS), ed0 (NE2000 but wrong io) changed the irq setting for the pas by doing a "irq pas0 15" changed the irq setting for ed1 by doing "irq ed1 11" This resolved most issues and allowed me to load all system components except the XFree386 (X components), this just hung during the load process, no message, no nothing. The whole process took about 3 hours. It would have taken an hour to get this far with just a little more online documentation. Gripes aside, I presently unable to figure out how to get network services going (no online doc at all). Or how to load XFree386.