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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!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!blackbush.xlink.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: Difficulties with FreeBSD 2.x Date: 7 May 1996 21:21:16 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 55 Message-ID: <4moesc$aut@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4mmr05$9hl@tribune.usask.ca> 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 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Cc: lrw118@mail.usask.ca (Luke Raphael Wadel) lrw118@mail.usask.ca (Luke Raphael Wadel) wrote: > 1) Partitioning: FreeBSD's FDISK seems to mess up Logical > drives on my extended partition. When I boot up and go to DOS, I get > errors informing me of this. Also, a Ramdrive suddenly won't work. > Further, Linux's CFDISK informs me that there is a bad partition, and > refuses to run. This happens only after installing FreeBSD. Submit a Problem Report (PR) for it. Use send-pr. > 2) I gave FreeBSD 90 M, tried a minimal install, and was quickly > told that I did not have enough space devoted to BSD. Does not the > minimal install take 44M? I suppose this does not include swap, but how > much swap should I need? The rule of thumb is twice the RAM size. As with all rule of thumbs, your mileage may vary. :) > 3) I would like to setup PLIP (parallel port IP) and/or > something compatile with DOS' INTERLINK and/or Win95's direct cable > connection. Is this possible? Can I at least import Linux' PLIP? PLIP is there, and at least in the 2.2-SNAP, there's an option to have it Crynwr compatible. (That's what recent Linuces also do, though early ones had yet another incompatible one, like FreeBSD's default PLIP is only compatible to FreeBSD.) To use it, add the ``link0'' flag to your ifconfig command line for device lp0. > 4) When I gave BSD about 200M, it did not complain, but > eventually it locked up, or at least locked the keyboard and mouse up > when the system went into power saver mode. During the install, after > some files were copied (I do not know at exactly what point), this > occurred, and CTRL-ALT-DELETE even could do nothing. You've got an APM BIOS? I don't really know much about them, i believe there's some optional support for it available, but not in the default system. Best is to turn off all power management while installing, and then read the handbook section about building a custom kernel, and study the comments in the LINT config file (which serves as a reference for all the options). > *Please reply by E-MAIL; thanks! * (Please use ``Followup-To: poster'' to express this, so my newsreader automagically reminds me of your wish.) (Mailed and posted.) -- 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. ;-)