Re: freebsd install from floppy
In many situations, especially for and old or non standard equipment floppies are the best or even the only solution. Actually if I haven't found the solution to use floppy to install FreeBSD, I would be forced to use another system eg. OpenBSD instead, even if I prefer FreeBSD. The decision to make floppies obsolete is very bad, because it is still needed by many people. On 6 March 2010 10:54, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.ukwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/03/2010 09:26:22, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I seem to remember something about the floppy images being dropped because few current (or even recent) systems have a floppy drive at all, much less a bootable one. Yeah, but the floppy disk drive was already obsolete 10 years ago. It's just taken this long for it to fall down dead. Good riddance to it. Why would anyone want an unreliable, slow and tiny capacity device when you can get GiB capacity USB sticks everywhere nowadays? Not providing floppy disk installation images doesn't imply dropping kernel support for floppy drives. My ancient system has a floppy, and if I blew the dust out of it and could find some media it should work just fine with FreeBSD 8.0. In fact, if you need to support older equipment, free OSes like FreeBSD are really your only choice. Drivers for old devices tend to stick around in the source tree for much longer than in any commercial offering. They might suffer from bit-rot due to lack of developer access to samples of kit, but if you really need something like that fixed you probably could get patches. In fact, I think the primary reason for dropping old device drivers is usually because they don't receive any attention during the occasional code refactoring that occurs: no one complains, and the device sits around unusable or needing special backwards compatibility shims for a while, then gets quietly deleted. - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuSJl4ACgkQ8Mjk52CukIxSWACfSkJ6k09ig0sR5lctO7tooF1k NnUAnRrWUeDMssvWDx7rvzMgPWb3fHSw =3zRd -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd install from floppy
Illoai, Thanks a lot! Your solution works - system is up and running now :-) However, in such a case I really cannot understand why nobody can change just one parameter and put the file in a proper place in ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/ . It can simplify life for many people. Thanks again for your help. Take care, Piotr On 4 March 2010 05:51, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 March 2010 07:33, Piotr Lukawski plukaw...@googlemail.com wrote: Dears, I need to install Freebsd 8.0 using floppy and then ftp, but there are no floppy images in ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/ ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/ mentioned in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html I tried so install Freebsd 7 using availiable floppy (successful) and update it to 8.0 (after 3 days finally error and now now whole /usr directory so I am stacked). Could you please produce install floppy images for Freebsd 8.0? Please please please. I have no power to do the install of 7, upgrade and fail again :-( Thanks in adavance. Piotr Have you tried installing 8.0-RELEASE from your 7.x floppies? I have heard rumour that it is possible by just changing the release name under View/Set Various Installation Options. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
freebsd install from floppy
Dears, I need to install Freebsd 8.0 using floppy and then ftp, but there are no floppy images in ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/mentioned in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html I tried so install Freebsd 7 using availiable floppy (successful) and update it to 8.0 (after 3 days finally error and now now whole /usr directory so I am stacked). Could you please produce install floppy images for Freebsd 8.0? Please please please. I have no power to do the install of 7, upgrade and fail again :-( Thanks in adavance. Piotr ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Problem with a sound card
Hi, Please help me with a problem. I installed FreeBSD casiopea.lukawski.net 7.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Fri Oct 2 12:21:39 UTC 2009 r...@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 on Cassiopea Fiva MPC-205E ( http://world.casio.com/system/pa/products/ht/fiva_mpc205e_spec.html ) with build in sound card AC-Link connected sound chip (16-bit stereo PCM) Then I tried kldload snd_driver and the driver was recognised as: casiopea# cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386) Installed devices: pcm0: Acer Labs M5451 at io 0x1000 irq 10 kld snd_t4dwave [GIANT] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex default) but... still no sound then I enabled the driver in /boot/defaults/loader.conf snd_t4dwave_load=YES # t4dwave the driver is loading properly, but ... still no sound Following the suggestion from http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2006-November/005322.html I've put these into my /etc/sysctl.conf: hw.snd.maxautovchans=10 hw.snd.pcm0.vchans=4 still no sound if I try casiopea# mpg123 puszek.mp3 I get: High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layers 1, 2 and 3 version 1.10.0; written and copyright by Michael Hipp and others free software (LGPL/GPL) without any warranty but with best wishes Playing MPEG stream 1 of 1: puszek.mp3 ... [...] MPEG 1.0 layer III, 320 kbit/s, 44100 Hz joint-stereo but still no sound. Please help to solve it, I have no more idea what I can do with. Thanks in advance, Take care, Piotr ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
