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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!psgrain!nntp.teleport.com!corwin From: corwin@teleport.com (John Light) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: i need some help Date: 29 Nov 1995 04:29:29 GMT Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016 Lines: 23 Message-ID: <49gnja$k68@maureen.teleport.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kelly.teleport.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I'm looking to install FreeBSD 2.0.5(because i can borrow a CD from a friend) on one of my two machines. The one I want to install it on is a 386/DX33 with a SB16 Matsushita 2x cd-rom, 8 megs ram and 1.2 gigs disk space. The other one is a Pentium 120, 16 megs ram, 2.4 gigs disk, S3-968 based PCI video w/ 2 megs VRAM, triton chipset, and a Mitsumi 4X local bus EIDE CD-ROM. Unfortunately, i can get it to work on neither of these machines. Here are my problems: on the 386, nothing appears to recognize the 1.2 gig disk i have in there, so i can't get BSD to see the disk. Is this the 512k block limit on the older architecture, or is there something else? i've tried telling the BIOS that i have 1023 cylinders instead of 2477, but it still doesn't like it. on the pentium, i can't get it to see the cd-rom. is there some way of making it recognize the CD as a mounted filesystem, or as another IDE drive(in addition to the 2 1.2 gig disks i have in there?). Also, i cannot get it to install off the DOS partition, because for some reason it can't complete reading the sets(or something). Any help'd be appreciated. -- corwin@teleport.COM Public Access User -- Not affiliated with Teleport Public Access UNIX and Internet at (503) 220-1016 (2400-28800, N81)