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From: phillip@mirriwinni.cse.rmit.edu.au (Phillip Musumeci)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP! IDE CD-ROM not recognized!
Date: 23 Jun 1996 21:07:48 +1000
Organization: Computer Systems Engineering Department, RMIT Australia
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In-reply-to: avg@cwi.nl's message of Thu, 20 Jun 1996 09:40:20 GMT
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>>>>> "Annius" == Annius Groenink <avg@cwi.nl> writes:
Annius> conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) writes:
>>>> PCI EIDE interface (2 ports). The CD is configured as a master on
>>>> the 2nd IDE interface. I have no docs on how to change it to
>>>> slave, so that FreeBSD will recognize it.
Annius> Sounds exactly like my configuration---and I have the same
Annius> problems.
>>> If you can get a minimal system installed, perhaps via a DOS
>>> partition, it's only a one line change, if I recall correctly, to
>>> configure a kernel to support your configuration.
>> Yep, that's exactly what I did. Copied a minimal install set
[[material cut here]]
Annius> Hm. And I thought Linux was a pain to install. Is there
Annius> really no way to do this without compiling a complete new
Annius> kernel first?
Annius> Why is there no standard boot disk image for such a typical
Annius> setup? The majority of IDE CDROM users will, I think, have a
Annius> HD and CDROM on two different ports, both master.
As mentioned above, one way to install FreeBSD from CD ia via a copy of the
necessary distribution on disk. This avoids you having to know anything
about your CD drive (so long as it works with DOS) in the install process.
File ftp://pm.cse.rmit.edu.au/210m/fbsdmove.bat (enclosed) is a DOS batch
file to copy about 35M of the distribution from a CD drive onto a DOS file
system (which I assume has 35M of space) so that you can do an install from
a DOS file system to your new BSD file system. If DOS sees your CD drive
as D: and the DOS disk file system you want to use is C:, then you would
insert your FreeBSD-2.1.0R CD and enter command
FBSDMOVE D: C:
and wait while XCOPY does some serious file copying. As prompted, you can
then CD into the boot area C:\DISTS\PM and, if no weird memory managers are
installed, just enter command INSTALL to boot and go.
The reason for writing this script was that I had some students wanting to
install FreeBSD from all sorts of CD drives and it seemd that the easiest
thing to do was automate their installation from a DOS file system so that
they could at least recompile the FreeBSD kernel and sort out their CD
access later. This also maximised my chance of not learning about all of
their different CD drives...
The file fbsdmove.bat on the anonymous ftp area is a DOS text file (just
the way MS likes them).
Hope this helps, Phillip.
p.s. Also enclosed is a copy of shell script dpa which can be used to
install packages off a DOS file system (the current pkg_add doesn't like to
install packages that have truncated file names, as would occur if you
stashed some packages onto a DOS file system enroute to getting them into
your FreeBSD system).
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rem FBSDMOVE.BAT
rem
rem Use FBSDMOVE src: dest:
rem
rem where
rem src: is the CD containing directories \DISTS and \PACKAGES
rem dest: is the disk to which these directories' contents are copied
rem
rem phillip@rmit.edu.au 1v0 6/2/1996, 1v1 12/2/1996, 1v2 14/2/1996,
rem 1v3 5/3/1996.
rem STILL TO DO
rem 1) make sure that the xcopy utility is available
rem A FreeBSD installation accessing the distribution from an existing DOS
rem file system on a hard disk requires no detailed knowledge of the target
rem PC hardware. This purpose of this script is to copy a minimum set of
rem the FreeBSD distribution from a CD mounted under DOS to a DOS file
rem system on a hard disk so that a user can do a complete installation
rem using only disk. Approximately 35M of disk space is needed on the DOS
rem disk.
rem
rem
rem The distribution files copied are sufficient for a "Kern-Developer"
rem installation i.e. we copy: the system binaries; full documentation
rem (man pages and the HTML material); the sources for ONLY the operating
rem system (so that you can build a kernel for your particular hardware
rem later), plus a few basic packages that you might want (e.g. a tcsh or
rem bash shell like your unix account probably has, the micro-emacs editor,
rem and the mtools package for easy access to DOS floppies from FreeBSD).
rem
rem
rem Note that if you can boot your DOS system without any memory managers
rem or TSRs present, then you will be able to boot up the FreeBSD unix
rem operating system directly from your DOS disk. One way to boot up a DOS
rem system without any add-ons present is to hold down the SHIFT key during
rem the DOS boot stage so that the autoexec.bat and config.sys files are
rem ignored. Another way might be to boot using a floppy disk that
rem contains the basic system and a COMMAND.COM file (you can make such a
rem floppy by formating a floppy and using the SYS command).
rem
rem This batch file assumes that your CD is mounted as E: and that your
rem target disk is D: (this is the case if you are installing FreeBSD onto
rem a second hard disk with a small DOS file system and your first hard
rem disk is seen by DOS as C:). %1 and %2 can override these defaults.
rem
set SRC=%1
if "x%SRC%"=="x" set SRC=E:
set DEST=%2
if "x%DEST%"=="x" set DEST=D:
@echo Source is %SRC%
@echo Destination is %DEST%
rem
rem
rem
@echo **********************************************
@echo Creating destination directory %DEST%\DISTS
mkdir %DEST%\dists
@echo **********************************************
@echo (1/8) Copying BIN distribution
@echo into %DEST%\DISTS\BIN
mkdir %DEST%\dists\bin
xcopy %SRC%\dists\bin\*.* %DEST%\dists\bin /e
@echo **********************************************
@echo (2/8) Copying MANPAGES distribution
@echo into %DEST%\DISTS\MANPAGES
mkdir %DEST%\dists\manpages
xcopy %SRC%\dists\manpages\*.* %DEST%\dists\manpages /e
@echo **********************************************
@echo (3/8) Copying PROFLIBS distribution
@echo into %DEST%\DISTS\PROFLIBS
mkdir %DEST%\dists\proflibs
xcopy %SRC%\dists\proflibs\*.* %DEST%\dists\proflibs /e
@echo **********************************************
@echo (4/8) Copying DICT distribution
@echo into %DEST%\DISTS\DICT
mkdir %DEST%\dists\dict
xcopy %SRC%\dists\dict\*.* %DEST%\dists\dict /e
@echo **********************************************
@echo (5/8) Copying INFO (HTML) distribution
@echo into %DEST%\DISTS\INFO
mkdir %DEST%\dists\info
xcopy %SRC%\dists\info\*.* %DEST%\dists\info /e
@echo **********************************************
@echo (6/8) Copying floppy images
@echo into %DEST%\DISTS\FLOPPIES
mkdir %DEST%\dists\floppies
copy %SRC%\floppies\boot.flp %DEST%\dists\floppies
copy %SRC%\floppies\root.flp %DEST%\dists\floppies
rem Copy only what we really need here..............
rem copy %SRC%\floppies\atapi.flp %DEST%\dists\floppies
rem copy %SRC%\floppies\fixit.flp %DEST%\dists\floppies
@echo **********************************************
@echo (7/8) Copying KERNEL and documentation files
@echo into %DEST%\DISTS\PM
mkdir %DEST%\dists\pm
copy %SRC%\kernel. %DEST%\dists\pm\kernel. /v
rem copy %SRC%\kernel. %DEST%\dists\pm\kernel. /v
copy %SRC%\fbsdboot.exe %DEST%\dists\pm /v
copy %SRC%\*.bat %DEST%\dists\pm /v
copy %SRC%\*.txt %DEST%\dists\pm
copy %SRC%\00*.* %DEST%\dists\pm
@echo **********************************************
@echo (8/8) Copying SRC distribution (kernel only)
@echo into %DEST%\DISTS\SRC
mkdir %DEST%\dists\src
copy %SRC%\dists\src\ssys.* %DEST%\dists\src
copy %SRC%\dists\src\install.sh %DEST%\dists\src
copy %SRC%\dists\src\00*.* %DEST%\dists\src
echo **********************************************
@echo Almost finished.
@echo (9/8 :-) Copying a few useful packages...
@echo into %DEST%\PACKAGES\ALL
@echo If you Mount your DOS file system as /dos in
@echo the installation, these files will appear in
@echo directory /dos/packages/all
@echo and you can enter the unix command
@echo sh /dos/packages/dpa
@echo to install the packages later.
mkdir %DEST%\packages
copy %SRC%\packages\INDEX %DEST%\packages
copy %SRC%\packages\INDEX.TXT %DEST%\packages
copy %SRC%\packages\README %DEST%\packages
mkdir %DEST%\packages\all
copy %SRC%\packages\all\bash*.* %DEST%\packages\all
copy %SRC%\packages\all\tcsh*.* %DEST%\packages\all
copy %SRC%\packages\all\uemac*.* %DEST%\packages\all
copy %SRC%\packages\all\mtool*.* %DEST%\packages\all
copy %SRC%\packages\all\zip*.* %DEST%\packages\all
copy %SRC%\packages\all\unzip*.* %DEST%\packages\all
copy %SRC%\packages\all\lynx*.* %DEST%\packages\all
rem
rem Copy and rename the name translation table across
COPY %SRC%\PACKAGES\ALL\00_TRANS.TBL %DEST%\PACKAGES\00ALL.TBL
rem
rem Copy a script to install these packages
COPY C:dpa %DEST%\PACKAGES
@echo **********************************************
@echo Restart DOS with no memory managers present by
@echo holding the SHIFT key down during boot up, CD
@echo to the target drive:\DISTS\PM, and enter
@echo install
@echo to start the installation. If the system will
@echo not boot, you will have to use a boot floppy.
@echo **********************************************
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#! /bin/sh
#
# Script dpa
# URL = ftp://pm.cse.rmit.edu.au/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/misc/dpa
#
# The current pkg_add command cannot process packages in files that have
# incorrect names e.g. packages that are being read off a DOS file system
# where a shortened name is required. Shell script dpa (Dos Package Add)
# figures out the real name of a package so it can be temporarily copied
# across to $DEST (with its original name) and have pkg_add run on it.
#
# The user is prompted to have all packages available in the source
# directory installed.
#
# Parameter 1 is taken as the directory holding the 8+3 named packages,
# otherwise we look for a directory named /dos/packages or /dosc/packages
# or /dosd/packages,
# otherwise we ask where the hell these packages are supposed to be.
#
# Note: if you had chosen to mount a dos partition as /dos during the
# installation, and used the DOS batch file fbsdmove.bat to copy some
# initial packages into area \PACKAGES on the DOS disk, then this
# script will figure out where your packages are hiding.
#
# Use: dpa (assumes packages in /dos/packages etc.)
# dpa SRCDIR
#
# phillip@rmit.edu.au 1v0 15-feb-1996
DEST=/root
# if a /home is present, we store temporary package copies there
# (we assume that a large file system is available at /home)
if [ -d /home ] ; then
if [ ! -d /home/tmp ] ; then
mkdir /home/tmp
fi
export PKG_TMPDIR=/home/tmp # pkg_add needs lots of space sometimes
DEST=$PKG_TMPDIR
fi
###########################################################################
# take parameter 1 as the source directory containing the packages
if [ "x$1" != x ] ; then
SRC=$1
# otherwise, attempt to guess where the DOS file system is that contains
# the FreeBSD packages
else
SRC=
echo
if [ x$SRC = x -a -d /dos/packages/all ] ; then
SRC=/dos/packages/all
fi
if [ x$SRC = x -a -d /dosc/packages/all ] ; then
SRC=/dosc/packages/all
fi
if [ x$SRC = x -a -d /dosd/packages/all ] ; then
SRC=/dosd/packages/all
fi
# otherwise we just ask where the FreeBSD packages are
if [ "x$SRC" = x ] ; then
echo "Please enter the directory where the packages are kept"
read x
if [ -d $x ] ; then
SRC=$x
else
echo That does not seem to be a directory...
exit
fi
fi
fi
echo "Using packages in $SRC"
###########################################################################
# Procedure:
#
# a) examine each file to see if it is a gzip compressed file
# b) if it is, we assume it is a .tgz package file and extract the +CONTENTS
# file in which a line commencing with the string "@name" is used to give
# us the original package's name
# c) the user is then prompted to see if this package should be copied and
# installed.
cd $SRC
for x in * ; do
if [ -n "`file $x | grep gzip`" ] ; then # non-empty string --> GZIP data
echo
y=`tar xzOf $x +CONTENTS | grep @name | cut -d' ' -f2`.tgz # get real name
echo "File $x is really $y; install (n/y)? "
read a
case $a in
y*|Y*) # we install
cp $x $DEST/$y # copy to eal name
echo "Executing: pkg_add $DEST/$y"
pkg_add $DEST/$y # and install
/bin/rm $DEST/$y # then delete tmp copy
;;
q*|Q*) exit 0 ;; # quit
*) echo "Ignoring: $y" ;;
esac
fi
done
###########################################################################
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