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From: mikenix@bianca.amd.com (Michael Nix)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: FreeBSD 2.1.5 SCSI install
Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:42:20 GMT
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Austin, TX, USA
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Message-ID: <528ofs$3u7@amdint2.amd.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: bianca.amd.com
Hello:
I just purchased a new PC, and FreeBSD 2.1.5 to run on it.
Installation from a CD-ROM did not work.
Installation from a DOS partition did not work.
Installation of a minimum system from floppy-disks worked well.
The details of my hardware are:
AMD 486-133MHz PCI-bus mother-board from American Megatrends.
Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller.
2.1GB Seagate SCSI disk-drive for DOS.
1.2GB Hewlet-Packard SCSI disk-drive for FreeBSD.
Plextar 4X SCSI CD-ROM drive.
Stealth Video-card.
33600 Baud internal modem (I do not remember the manufacturer).
Creative Technologies Sound-Blaster-16 card.
Gravis game-port card.
While trying to install FreeBSD from the CD-ROM, or from DOS disk-space,
I would get multiple errors complaining about check-sum erorrs and
premature end-of-files. The CD-ROM drive, and the DOS disk_drive
work well for DOS applications.
When doing the installation from floppy-disks, I had no harware problems
or warnings. The FreeBSD manual was a little incomplete: Be sure
to copy all the files in /bin on to floppies, not just those listed
in the table.
Now, I need to spend some time debugging my hardware problem so that
I can get the rest of the operating system loaded.
Hopefully, this will be of some help to those trying to get 2.1.5 up
on a SCSI system.
Sincerely,
Michael Nix
AMD, Austin
September 24, 1996 8:22 a. m.