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authorjkh <jkh@FreeBSD.org>1997-01-29 15:02:05 +0000
committerjkh <jkh@FreeBSD.org>1997-01-29 15:02:05 +0000
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More fixes and an update to the ZIP section.
Submitted-By: pds
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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
<author>Maintainer: Peter da Silva <tt><htmlurl url='mailto:pds@FreeBSD.ORG'
name='&lt;pds@FreeBSD.ORG&gt;'></tt>
-<date>$Date: 1997/01/29 04:39:53 $
+<date>$Date: 1997/01/29 14:45:57 $
<abstract>
This is the FAQ for FreeBSD systems version 2.X All entries are
assumed to be relevant to FreeBSD 2.0.5+, unless otherwise noted.
@@ -411,6 +411,11 @@ Any entries with a &lt;XXX&gt; are under construction.
The FreeBSD handbook has a pretty complete
<url url="../handbook/bibliography.html" name="Bibliography">
+ <label id="pao">There's also a wealth of information about using
+ FreeBSD on laptops at
+ <url url="http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/PAO/"
+ name="Tatsumi Hosokawa's Mobile Computing page"> in Japan.
+
<sect>
<heading>Installation</heading>
<p>
@@ -604,6 +609,8 @@ Any entries with a &lt;XXX&gt; are under construction.
+----------------------------------------+
</verb>
+ See also <ref id="pao" name="this note"> on the Mobile Computing page.
+
<sect1>
<heading>Which geometry should I use for a disk drive?<label id="geometry"></heading>
<p>
@@ -727,7 +734,9 @@ Any entries with a &lt;XXX&gt; are under construction.
<p>
Divide up your FreeBSD slice according to taste and press `w' when
you are happy with the way it looks. Again, say ``Yes'' when asked
- for confirmation, and press `q' to quit.
+ for confirmation, and press `q' to quit. If you're adding swap
+ space on the second drive, look at <ref id="swap" name="this note">
+ for a nasty little gotcha that can cause no end of trouble.
<p>
<label id="2_1-disklabel-fix">
<bf>Using disklabel(8) manually with 2.1.6-RELEASE</bf>
@@ -870,6 +879,12 @@ drivedata: 0
magic in 386BSD 0.1 through FreeBSD 2.0, thus partition
'e' is often used for the first non-bootable partition
containing a filesystem.)
+ <tag><label id="swap">
+ <bf>Warning about swap space</bf></tag>
+ The space required by the BSD partition table is allowed
+ for in the file system. It's not allowed for by the swap
+ partition. So don't start swap at cylinder 0, either offset
+ it or put a file system in partition 'a'.
</descrip>
<sect1>
@@ -1019,6 +1034,7 @@ drivedata: 0
<descrip>
<tag/Adaptec/
+ AH-1505 &lt;ISA&gt; <newline>
AH-152x Series &lt;ISA&gt; <newline>
AH-154x Series &lt;ISA&gt; <newline>
AH-174x Series &lt;EISA&gt; <newline>
@@ -1079,21 +1095,37 @@ drivedata: 0
<p>
FreeBSD supports the SCSI ZIP drive out of the box, of course. The
- ZIP drive can only be set to run at SCSI target IDs 5 or 6, but if
- your SCSI host adapter's BIOS supports it you can even boot from
+ ZIP drive can only be set to run at SCSI target IDs 5 or 6, but if
+ your SCSI host adapter's BIOS supports it you can even boot from
it. I don't know which host adapters let you boot from targets
other than 0 or 1... look at your docs (and let me know if it works
out for you).
- There is no built in support for the parallel ZIP drive, and if you
- haven't bought your ZIP drive already I recommend you get the SCSI
- one... the price is the same, and the performance is much better,
+ There is no built in support for the parallel ZIP drive, and if you
+ haven't bought your ZIP drive already I recommend you get the SCSI
+ one... the price is the same, and the performance is much better,
and you're unlikely to ever be able to boot from the parallel port.
- If you already have a parallel ZIP, there is a port of the Linux
- driver available at
- <url url="http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~son/ppa3.html"
- name="Nicolas Souchu's home page"> in France.
+ If you already have a parallel ZIP, there is a port of the Linux
+ driver available at
+ <url url="http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~son/ppa3.html"
+ name="Nicolas Souchu's home page"> in France.
+
+ Also check out <ref id="jaz" name="this note on removable drives">.
+
+ <sect1>
+ <heading>And how about JAZ, EZ, and other removable drives?</heading>
+
+ <p>
+ Apart from the IDE version of the EZ drive, these are all SCSI
+ devices, so the should all look like SCSI disks to FreeBSD, and
+ the IDE EZ should look like an IDE drive.
+
+ <label id="jaz">
+ I'm not sure how well FreeBSD supports changing the media out
+ while running. You will of course need to dismount the drive
+ before swapping media, and make sure that any external units are
+ powered on when you boot the system so FreeBSD can see them.
<sect1>
<heading>What multi-port serial cards are supported by FreeBSD?</heading>
@@ -1170,6 +1202,7 @@ options PSM_CHECKSYNC #checks the header byte for sync.
<p>
Please refer to <ref id="ps2mouse" name="the answer to the previous question">.
+ And check out <ref id="pao" name="this note"> on the Mobile Computing page.
<sect1>
<heading>What types of tape drives are supported under FreeBSD?</heading>
@@ -1652,7 +1685,8 @@ crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 41, 1 Oct 15 22:14 spx
<heading>How can I add more swap space?</heading>
<p>The best way is to increase the size of your swap partition, or
- take advantage of this convenient excuse to add another disk, but
+ take advantage of this convenient excuse to add another disk (and
+ see <ref id="swap" name="this note"> if you do), but
<bf/Werner Griessl/ has provided these instructions for setting FreeBSD
up for swapping to a file:
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