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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD on EIDE Date: 20 Dec 1995 15:46:17 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4b9b49$9jc@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <49a6up$3db@masala.cc.uh.edu> <49jr5n$ili@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Pine.SUN.3.90.951205110117.4640D-100000@hurricane.cs.odu.edu> <4a7kpi$jns@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Pine.SOL.3.91.951212200319.1109A-100000@icarus.cc.uic.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Rory Imua Lampert <rory@uic.edu> writes: > This is the current mess I'm in. I installed FBSD 2.1R, made the > 1gig master and the 250M slave. I allocated 400M for dos on the 1gig (now > wd0) and left everything else to FBSD. Dos boots just fine and installed > the neato driver for dos for the controller and it works. Now I booted off > the FBSD floppy, did an entire install of FBSD off of the dos partition and > everything went just fine with the install (still didn't detect the cd-rom > *sigh*). What does your ``neato driver for dos'' exactly do? (And what's the geometry your BIOS thinks? What have you been using as geometry for FreeBSD installation?) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)