Problems installing on Sager Laptop

[Jerry Sloan]

Brooks Davis wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 06:00:44PM -0500, Jerry Sloan wrote:
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>>Brooks Davis wrote:
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>>>On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:49:40AM -0500, Jerry Sloan wrote:
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>>>>I am attempting to do an ftp install of FreeBSD release on an older 
>>>>Sager laptop. Pentium MMX. I go through the floppy part and when I am 
>>>>able to setup partitions it says No Disk found. The boot floppy finds 
>>>>the disk as disk1. Any and all help will be appreciated.
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>>>You're going to have to provide a lot more information for use to do
>>>anything for you.
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>>>Which version of FreeBSD are you using?  What do you mean by "The boot
>>>floppy finds the disk as disk1"?  Can you see anything that looks like a
>>>disk drive or controler in the dmesg?
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>>Sorry for not being more specific. I am trying to install 5.3 Release 
>>over the net. When I boot from the boot floppy to do the setup one of 
>>the first things I see on the screen BIOS drive c: =disk1. I'm not sure 
>>if a controller or hard drive is showing in dmesg since it moves by so 
>>fast, and it isn't being created anywhere.
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>Appearing in the BIOS means that the BIOS knows how to talk to it,
>nothing more nothing less.  For all we know it could be a clay-tablet
>printer/scanner system. :-)  It would be really nice if you could find a
>way to get the dmesg, but I'm not sure what sort of options you'll have.
>Perhaps a fixit floppy.
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>Could you try 4.10 or a 4.11 RC?  It seems likely you have an ATA
>controller that we aren't supporting, but it's hard to say.  It's
>entirely possible it's supported in an older version and support was
>accidentally dropped because no one else has such a beast.  Certainly
>Pentium class laptops tend to be a bit weird.  I wouldn't really expect
>one to work well with 5.3.
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>-- Brooks
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I have 4.5 also, so I am trying that. You are probably right. I am only 
doing this so I can work on a CGI project propped up in bed in the 
evenings..hahahah

Thanks
Jerry