Re: Can't install 4.9 ?
From: Wes Groleau (groleau_at_freeshell.org)
Date: 12/16/03
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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 18:16:51 -0500
> FreeBSD 5.* uses a newer, slightly different bootcd format. Seems like
> your old bios can't deal with that?
That's presumably the case. Same thing happens with Darwin 7.
Boots on newer machines but hangs on older ones.
>>But the 4.9 CD is not recognized as even worth trying to boot.
>>It just does a read and then boots Windoze 95 from the hard drive.
>
> Maybe the drive doesn't recognize your CD-R? Did you close the session?
Hmmm. So maybe I should swap the CD drives and try again.
>>If so, and I install without that card, how hard will it be
>>later to get ethernet working? (Main purpose of this box
>>is to be a NFS-mounted backup device.)
>
> Depending on whether or not that old card is supported by the GENERIC
> kernel or a kernel module, it is supported -but not by GENERIC-, or no
> support at all, skill level required varies from very little, not too
> much or driver programming skills, respectively.
Well, I've been paid for programming for nearly twenty years,
BUT I don't have time to fiddle with this. I'll try a few
experiments, but taking out the McAfee ROM won't be one of
them--it's surface mount soldered.
One idea, before you jogged me with the CD drive idea
was to swap hard drives, build FreeBSD in the other box,
and swap back. But if this McAfee ROM is trying to
"protect me" from a "malicious" boot block, I may have
to choose between FreeBSD sans ethernet and Windoze 98
with ethernet. :-)
McAfee has done a marvelous job of keeping those nuisances
called users from interfering with their tech support people.
:-)
-- Wes Groleau Is it an on-line compliment to call someone a Net Wit ?
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