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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!mr.net!nntp04.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.asu.edu!ennfs.eas.asu.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing on PCMCIA Hard Disk Date: 19 Aug 1996 14:55:01 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4v9v85$i97@helena.MT.net> References: <4v9q0v$jt7@nr1.ottawa.istar.net> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.mt.sri.com [ Emailed as well ] In article <4v9q0v$jt7@nr1.ottawa.istar.net>, Greg Foster <greg.foster@kanatek.ca> wrote: >Hello All, > >I'm trying to install FreeBSD (the latest 2.2 SNAPSHOT) onto my DEC >HiNote Ultra that has a DataPak 340MB PC Card Disk Drive. > >When I booted from the installation floppy, I couldn't only see wd0 >(the internal IDE disk). > >Is there a special boot disk that is required to see PC Card hard >disks during the install... Or is this even supported ?? Yep, but even after you get it, you won't be able boot off the disk since the PCCARD disk won't be probed until after the machine goes multi-user, which would be impossible w/out a completely working system. This is one of the limitations of the the current PCCARD code has since it does most of it's work in user-land, and unfortunately I don't see it changing anytime in the near future. Sorry! Nate -- nate@sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.mt.sri.com | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana (all the crazies are now in jail 'cept us home #: (406) 443-7063 | natives). - Fly fishing fanatic!