Hello,
I will firstly say that although I am not experienced with freeBSD, I have been using
Linux for some time. I obtained the first ISO in the set for FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE last
saturday, here are the problems I have been experiencing whilst attempting to install
it.
1) Keyboard not responsive once kernel boots.
I have a Diamond Touch Keyboard (PS/2). Works okay in the bootloader, but as soon as
the kernel boots I have no keyboard, hence I cannot proceed with installation. I fixed
this by setting one of the variables in the bootloader:
set hints.atkbd.flags=0x0 (instead of 0x1). I got this from one of the bug reports
as far back as FreeBSD 4.1, one of the people mentioned Diamond Touch Keyboards were
affected by this bug. I do not know why this is the case as Linux and windows both
have no trouble with this keyboard.
2) Cannot create partition for FreeBSD
I can create a "slice" for freeBSD in fdisk, but it calls the partition "X". When I go
to commit the changes to hard drive and start the install, freeBSD complains that it
cannot find "/dev/X". I have found no way to correct the name in fdisk.
Here is my partition table as reported by cfdisk under linux:
Name Part Type FS Type Size (MB)
------------------------------------------
hda1 Primary NTFS 20974.47
hda2 Primary Ext3 10487.24
hda3 Primary Linux Swap 205.64
hda5 Logical FAT32 10511.91
hda6 Logical Reiserfs 10692.87
hda7 Logical Reiserfs 10001.95
Logical Free Space 17149.71
The operating systems I have on here already are Red Hat 8.0, Mandrake 9.0, Debian
3.0, Windows 2000.
In the freeBSD install I try to create a primary partition of 5000MB in the free
space, all seems well except for it calling the partition "X".
The following are my computer specs:
AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.4GHz
MSI VIA K7T266 Motherboard, 512MB DDR RAM
Diamond Touch PS/2 Keyboard
Microsoft Intellieye Optical Mouse USB (plugged in with PS/2 adapter)
Seagate Barracuda 80GB 7200RPM IDE HDD
Acer 16x10x40 CDRW (the cd drive im installing from)
Pioneer 16x DVD-ROM (slave)
SB Live, Geforce3
I am only a freeBSD newbie, so I will be trying 4.7 soon. I thought that I should
report these problems so that they can be fixed in revisions of 5.0.
Thanks!
Damien
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