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- From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson)
- Subject: Need help installing 386BSD on EISA/SCSI 486DX2/50
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.044404.14764@pool.info.sunyit.edu>
- Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 04:44:04 GMT
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- OK, it's my third 386BSD installation but this time it didn't go
- smoothly. This time it is on a (as the subject line says) Gateway
- 2000 EISA 486DX2/50 with 16 MB RAM, UltraStor Ultra 24F SCSI host
- adaptor, and Maxtor 340SY 340 MB drive.
-
- With its default (as shipped) configuration, I made a 162 MB MS-DOS
- partition and when I booted the dist.fs floppy the hard drive wasn't
- detected. Reading through the trusty Gateway 2000 owner's manual,
- I saw some instructions for configuring the system for SCO, ISC, and
- AT&T UNIX. It said I should have the following settings:
-
- host adaptor: enabled
- BIOS address C8000
- IRQ 14
- ISA mode selection: primary
- drive mapping mode: 16 hd, 63 sctr, 2 drv
-
- (And of course I have "no drives" in my CMOS setup.) I tried these
- settings and dist.fs recognized the UltraStor. I was able to install
- 386BSD as usual, but it wouldn't boot from the hard drive. It keeps
- going into that reboot loop. (One time I even got a message saying
- to hit the reset button.)
-
- OK, I glanced through a list of supported SCSI controllers and didn't
- see this controller mentioned, but many controllers act like supported
- ones and my results with dist.fs lead me to believe that this controller
- will work. I don't have access to this machine on a regular basis, so
- I'd appreciate any help I can get before I give it another try. I have
- some specific questions, but I'll listen to just about any suggestion.
-
- - My system at home is fully patched. Should this take care of it?
-
- - Since it is EISA, will it need any special patches?
-
- - Is anyone else running 386BSD on this same type of system? If so,
- should I expect to experience more problems?
-
- A general question:
-
- - How can I make my own dist.fs?
-
- Thanks in advance,
-
- --
- Jim H.
- *
- * James L. Henrickson | "I don't need a signature, I need a job!"
- * ujlh@sunyit.edu | BSCS, December 1992
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