diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml index 071c9fdce1..cb410615ec 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml @@ -1,1732 +1,1794 @@ Installing FreeBSD Restructured, updated, and parts rewritten by &a.jim;, January 2000. Synopsis The following chapter will attempt to guide you through the installation of FreeBSD on your system. It can be installed through a variety of methods, including anonymous FTP (assuming you have network connectivity via modem or local network), CDROM, floppy disk, tape, an MS-DOS partition, or even NFS. No matter which method you choose, you will need to get started by creating the installation disks as described in the next section. Booting into the FreeBSD installer, even if you are not planning on installing FreeBSD right away, will provide important information about compatibility with your hardware. This information may dictate which installation options are even possible for you. It can also provide clues early-on in the process to potential problems you may come across later. If you plan to install FreeBSD via anonymous FTP, the only things you will need are the installation floppies. The installation program itself will handle anything else that is required. For more information about obtaining FreeBSD, see the Obtaining FreeBSD section of the Appendix. By now, you are probably wondering what exactly it is you need to do. Continue on to the installation guide. Installation Guide The following sections will guide you through preparing for and actually installing FreeBSD. If you find something missing, please let us know about it by sending email to the &a.doc;. Preparing for the Installation There are various things you should do in preparation for the installation. The following describes what needs to be done prior to each type of installation. The first thing to do is to make sure your hardware is supported by FreeBSD. The list of supported hardware should come in handy here. ;-) It would also be a good idea to make a list of any special cards you have installed, such as SCSI controllers, ethernet cards, sound cards, etc.. The list should include their IRQs and IO port addresses. Creating the Installation Floppies You may need to prepare some floppy disks. These disks will be used to boot your computer in to the FreeBSD install process. This step is not necessary if you are installing from CD-ROM, and your computer supports booting from the CD-ROM. If you do not meet these requirements then you will need to create some floppies to boot from. If you are not sure whether your computer can boot from the CD-ROM it does not hurt to try. Just insert the CD-ROM as normal and restart your computer. You might need to adjust some options in your BIOS so that your computer will try and boot from the CD-ROM drive before the hard disk. Even if you have the CD-ROM it might make sense for you to download the files. There have been occasions where bugs in the FreeBSD installer have been discovered after the CDs have been released. When this happens the copies of the images on the FTP site will be fixed as soon as possible. Obviously, it is not possible to update the CDs after they have been pressed. Acquire the boot floppy images These are files with a .flp extension. If you have a CD-ROM release of FreeBSD then you will find the files in the floppies subdirectory. Alternatively, you can download the images from the floppies directory of the FreeBSD FTP site or your local mirror. The names of the files you will need varies between FreeBSD releases (sometimes) and the architecture you will be installing on. The installation boot image information on the FTP site provides up-to-the-minute information about the specific files you will need. Prepare the floppy disks You must prepare one floppy disk per image file you had to download. It is imperitive that these disks are free from defects. The easiest way to test this is to format the disks for yourself. Do not trust pre-formatted floppies. If you try to install FreeBSD and the installation program crashes, freezes, or otherwise misbehaves one of the first things to suspect is the floppies. Try writing the floppy image files to some other disks, and try again. Write the image files to the floppy disks. The image files, such as kern.flp, are not regular files you copy to the disk. Instead, they are images of the complete contents of the disk. This means that you can not use commands like DOS' copy to write the files. Instead, you must use specific tools to write the images directly to the disk. If you are creating the floppies on a computer running DOS then we provide a tool to do this called fdimage. If you are using the floppies from the CD-ROM, and your CD-ROM is the E: drive then you would run this: E:\> tools\fdimage floppies\kern.flp Repeat this command for each .flp file, replacing the floppy disk each time. Adjust the command line as necessary, depending on where you have placed the .flp files. If you do not have the CD-ROM then fdimage can be downloaded from the tools directory on the FreeBSD FTP site. If you are writing the floppies on a Unix system (such as another FreeBSD system) you can use the &man.dd.1; command to write the image files directly to disk. On FreeBSD you would run: &prompt.root; dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/rfd0 On FreeBSD /dev/rfd0 refers to the first floppy disk (the A: drive). /dev/rfd1 would be the B: drive, and so on. Other Unix variants might have different names for the floppy disk devices, and you will need to check the documentation for the system as necessary. Before Installing from CDROM If your CDROM is of an unsupported type, please skip ahead to the MS-DOS Preparation section. There is not a whole lot of preparation needed if you are installing from one of Walnut Creek CDROM's FreeBSD CDROMs (other CDROM distributions may work as well, though we cannot say for certain as we have no hand or say in how they created). You can either boot into the CD installation directly from DOS using the install.bat or you can make floppies with the makeflp.bat command. If the CD has El Torito boot support and your system supports booting directly from the CDROM drive (many older systems do NOT), simply insert the first CD of the set into the drive and reboot your system. You will be put into the installation menu directly from the CD. If you are installing from an MS-DOS partition and have the proper drivers to access your CD, run the install.bat script provided on the CDROM. This will attempt to boot the FreeBSD installation directly from DOS. You must do this from actual DOS (i.e., boot in DOS mode) and not from a DOS window under Windows. For the easiest interface of all (from DOS), type view. This will bring up a DOS menu utility that leads you through all of the available options. If you are creating the boot floppies from a UNIX machine, see the Creating the Boot Floppies section of this guide for examples. Once you have booted from DOS or floppy, you should then be able to select CDROM as the media type during the install process and load the entire distribution from CDROM. No other types of installation media should be required. After your system is fully installed and you have rebooted (from the hard disk), you can mount the CDROM at any time by typing: &prompt.root; mount /cdrom Before removing the CD from the drive again, you must first unmount it. This is done with the following command: &prompt.root; umount /cdrom Do not just remove it from the drive! Before invoking the installation, be sure that the CDROM is in the drive so that the install probe can find it. This is also true if you wish the CDROM to be added to the default system configuration automatically during the installation (whether or not you actually use it as the installation media). Finally, if you would like people to be able to FTP install FreeBSD directly from the CDROM in your machine, you will find it quite easy. After the machine is fully installed, you simply need to add the following line to the password file (using the vipw command): ftp:*:99:99::0:0:FTP:/cdrom:/nonexistent Anyone with network connectivity to your machine can now chose a media type of FTP and type in ftp://your machine after picking Other in the FTP sites menu during the install. If you choose to enable anonymous FTP during the installation of your system, the installation program will do the above for you. Before installing from Floppies If you must install from floppy disk (which we suggest you do NOT do), either due to unsupported hardware or simply because you insist on doing things the hard way, you must first prepare some floppies for the installation. At a minimum, you will need as many 1.44MB or 1.2MB floppies as it takes to hold all the files in the bin (binary distribution) directory. If you are preparing the floppies from DOS, then they MUST be formatted using the MS-DOS FORMAT command. If you are using Windows, use Explorer to format the disks (right-click on the A: drive, and select "Format". Do NOT trust factory pre-formatted floppies! Format them again yourself, just to be sure. Many problems reported by our users in the past have resulted from the use of improperly formatted media, which is why we are making a point of it now. If you are creating the floppies on another FreeBSD machine, a format is still not a bad idea, though you do not need to put a DOS filesystem on each floppy. You can use the disklabel and newfs commands to put a UFS filesystem on them instead, as the following sequence of commands (for a 3.5" 1.44MB floppy) illustrates: &prompt.root; fdformat -f 1440 fd0.1440 &prompt.root; disklabel -w -r fd0.1440 floppy3 &prompt.root; newfs -t 2 -u 18 -l 1 -i 65536 /dev/rfd0 Use fd0.1200 and floppy5 for 5.25" 1.2MB disks. Then you can mount and write to them like any other filesystem. After you have formatted the floppies, you will need to copy the files to them. The distribution files are split into chunks conveniently sized so that 5 of them will fit on a conventional 1.44MB floppy. Go through all your floppies, packing as many files as will fit on each one, until you have all of the distributions you want packed up in this fashion. Each distribution should go into a subdirectory on the floppy, e.g.: a:\bin\bin.aa, a:\bin\bin.ab, and so on. Once you come to the Media screen during the install process, select Floppy and you will be prompted for the rest. Before Installing from MS-DOS To prepare for an installation from an MS-DOS partition, copy the files from the distribution into a directory named, for example, c:\FreeBSD. The directory structure of the CDROM or FTP site must be partially reproduced within this directory, so we suggest using the DOS xcopy command if you are copying it from a CD. For example, to prepare for a minimal installation of FreeBSD: C:\> md c:\FreeBSD C:\> xcopy /s e:\bin c:\FreeBSD\bin\ C:\> xcopy /s e:\manpages c:\FreeBSD\manpages\ Assuming that C: is where you have free space and E: is where your CDROM is mounted. If you do not have a CDROM drive, you can download the distribution from ftp.FreeBSD.org. Each distribution is in its own directory; for example, the bin distribution can be found in the &rel.current;/bin directory. For as many distributions you wish to install from an MS-DOS partition (and you have the free space for), install each one under c:\FreeBSD — the BIN distribution is the only one required for a minimum installation. Before Installing from QIC/SCSI Tape Installing from tape is probably the easiest method, short of an online FTP install or CDROM install. The installation program expects the files to be simply tarred onto the tape, so after getting all of the distribution files you are interested in, simply tar them onto the tape like so: &prompt.root; cd /freebsd/distdir &prompt.root; tar cvf /dev/rwt0 dist1 ... dist2 When you go to do the installation, you should also make sure that you leave enough room in some temporary directory (which you will be allowed to choose) to accommodate the full contents of the tape you have created. Due to the non-random access nature of tapes, this method of installation requires quite a bit of temporary storage. You should expect to require as much temporary storage as you have stuff written on tape. When starting the installation, the tape must be in the drive before booting from the boot floppy. The installation probe may otherwise fail to find it. Before Installing over a Network There are three types of network installations you can do. Serial port (SLIP or PPP), Parallel port (PLIP (laplink cable)), or Ethernet (a standard ethernet controller (includes some PCMCIA)). The SLIP support is rather primitive, and limited primarily to hard-wired links, such as a serial cable running between a laptop computer and another computer. The link should be hard-wired as the SLIP installation does not currently offer a dialing capability; that facility is provided with the PPP utility, which should be used in preference to SLIP whenever possible. If you are using a modem, then PPP is almost certainly your only choice. Make sure that you have your service provider's information handy as you will need to know it fairly early in the installation process. If you use PAP or CHAP to connect your ISP (in other words, if you can connect to the ISP in Windows without using a script), then all you will need to do is type in dial at the ppp prompt. Otherwise, you will need to know how to dial your ISP using the AT commands specific to your modem, as the PPP dialer provides only a very simple terminal emulator. Please to the user-ppp handbook and FAQ entries for further information. If you have problems, logging can be directed to the screen using the command set log local .... If a hard-wired connection to another FreeBSD (2.0-R or later) machine is available, you might also consider installing over a laplink parallel port cable. The data rate over the parallel port is much higher than what is typically possible over a serial line (up to 50kbytes/sec), thus resulting in a quicker installation. Finally, for the fastest possible network installation, an ethernet adapter is always a good choice! FreeBSD supports most common PC ethernet cards; a table of supported cards (and their required settings) is provided in the Supported Hardware list. If you are using one of the supported PCMCIA ethernet cards, also be sure that it is plugged in before the laptop is powered on! FreeBSD does not, unfortunately, currently support hot insertion of PCMCIA cards during installation. You will also need to know your IP address on the network, the netmask value for your address class, and the name of your machine. If you are installing over a PPP connection and do not have a static IP, fear not, the IP address can be dynamically assigned by your ISP. Your system administrator can tell you which values to use for your particular network setup. If you will be referring to other hosts by name rather than IP address, you will also need a name server and possibly the address of a gateway (if you are using PPP, it is your provider's IP address) to use in talking to it. If you do not know the answers to all or most of these questions, then you should really probably talk to your system administrator or ISP before trying this type of installation. Before Installing via NFS The NFS installation is fairly straight-forward. Simply copy the FreeBSD distribution files you want onto a server somewhere and then point the NFS media selection at it. If this server supports only privileged port (as is generally the default for Sun workstations), you will need to set this option in the Options menu before installation can proceed. If you have a poor quality ethernet card which suffers from very slow transfer rates, you may also wish to toggle the appropriate Options flag. In order for NFS installation to work, the server must support subdir mounts, e.g., if your FreeBSD 3.4 distribution directory lives on:ziggy:/usr/archive/stuff/FreeBSD, then ziggy will have to allow the direct mounting of /usr/archive/stuff/FreeBSD, not just /usr or /usr/archive/stuff. In FreeBSD's /etc/exports file, this is controlled by the . Other NFS servers may have different conventions. If you are getting permission denied messages from the server, then it is likely that you do not have this enabled properly. Before Installing via FTP FTP installation may be done from any FreeBSD mirror site containing a reasonably up-to-date version of FreeBSD. A full list of FTP mirrors located all over the world is provided during the install process. If you are installing from an FTP site not listed in this menu, or are having trouble getting your name server configured properly, you can also specify a URL to use by selecting the choice labeled Other in that menu. You can also use the IP address of a machine you wish to install from, so the following would work in the absence of a name server: ftp://209.55.82.20/pub/FreeBSD/&rel.current;-RELEASE There are two FTP installation modes you can choose from: active or passive FTP. FTP Active This option will make all FTP transfers use Active mode. This will not work through firewalls, but will often work with older FTP servers that do not support passive mode. If your connection hangs with passive mode (the default), try active! FTP Passive This option instructs FreeBSD to use Passive mode for all FTP operations. This allows the user to pass through firewalls that do not allow incoming connections on random port addresses. Active and passive modes are not the same as a proxy connection, where a proxy FTP server is listening and forwarding FTP requests! For a proxy FTP server, you should usually give the name of the server you really want as a part of the username, after an @ sign. The proxy server then fakes the real server. For example, assuming you want to install from ftp.FreeBSD.org, using the proxy FTP server foo.bar.com, listening on port 1024. In this case, you go to the options menu, set the FTP username to ftp@ftp.FreeBSD.org, and the password to your email address. As your installation media, you specify FTP (or passive FTP, if the proxy supports it), and the URL ftp://foo.bar.com:1234/pub/FreeBSD. Since /pub/FreeBSD from ftp.FreeBSD.org is proxied under foo.bar.com, you are able to install from that machine (which will fetch the files from ftp.FreeBSD.org as your installation requests them. Check your BIOS drive numbering If you have used features in your BIOS to renumber your disk drives without recabling them then you should read first to ensure you do not confused. Installing FreeBSD Once you have completed the pre-installation step relevant to your situation, you are ready to install FreeBSD! Although you should not experience any difficulty, there is always the chance that you may, no matter how slight it is. If this is the case in your situation, then you may wish to go back and re-read the relevant preparation section or sections. Perhaps you will come across something you missed the first time. If you are having hardware problems, or FreeBSD refuses to boot at all, read the Hardware Guide on the boot floppy for a list of possible solutions. The FreeBSD boot floppies contain all of the online documentation you should need to be able to navigate through an installation. If it does not, please let us know what you found to be the most confusing or most lacking. Send your comments to the &a.doc;. It is the objective of the installation program (sysinstall) to be self-documenting enough that painful step-by-step guides are no longer necessary. It may take us a little while to reach that objective, but nonetheless, it is still our objective :-) Meanwhile, you may also find the following typical installation sequence to be helpful: Boot the kern.flp floppy and when asked, remove it and insert the mfsroot.flp and hit return. After a boot sequence which can take anywhere from 30 seconds to 3 minutes, depending on your hardware, you should be presented with a menu of initial choices. If the kern.flp floppy does not boot at all or the boot hangs at some stage, read the Q&A section of the Hardware Guide on the floppy for possible causes. Press F1. You should see some basic usage instructions on the menu screen and general navigation. If you have not used this menu system before then please read this thoroughly. Select the Options item and set any special preferences you may have. Select a Standard, Express, or Custom install, depending on whether or not you would like the installation to help you through a typical installation, give you a high degree of control over each step, or simply whiz through it (using reasonable defaults when possible) as fast as possible. If you have never used FreeBSD before, the Standard installation method is most recommended. The final configuration menu choice allows you to further configure your FreeBSD installation by giving you menu-driven access to various system defaults. Some items, like networking, may be especially important if you did a CDROM, tape, or floppy install and have not yet configured your network interfaces (assuming you have any). Properly configuring such interfaces here will allow FreeBSD to come up on the network when you first reboot from the hard disk. Supported Hardware FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA, and PCI bus based PCs, ranging from the 386SX to Pentium class machines (though the 386SX is not recommended). Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive configurations, various SCSI controllers, and network and serial cards is also provided. In order to run FreeBSD, a recommended minimum of eight megabytes of RAM is suggested. Sixteen megabytes is the preferred amount of RAM as you may have some trouble with anything less than sixteen depending on your hardware. What follows is a list of hardware currently known to work with FreeBSD. There may be other hardware that works as well, but we have simply not received any confirmation of it. Disk Controllers WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL) WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI) IDE ATA Adaptec 1535 ISA SCSI controllers Adaptec 154X series ISA SCSI controllers Adaptec 174X series EISA SCSI controllers in standard and enhanced mode Adaptec 274X/284X/2920C/294X/2950/3940/3950 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI controllers Adaptec AIC-7850, AIC-7860, AIC-7880, AIC-789X on-board SCSI controllers Adaptec 1510 series ISA SCSI controllers (not for bootable devices) Adaptec 152X series ISA SCSI controllers Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which include the AHA-152X and SoundBlaster SCSI cards AdvanSys SCSI controllers (all models) BusLogic MultiMaster W Series Host Adapters including BT-948, BT-958, BT-9580 BusLogic MultiMaster C Series Host Adapters including BT-946C, BT-956C, BT-956CD, BT-445C, BT-747C, BT-757C, BT-757CD, BT-545C, BT-540CF BusLogic MultiMaster S Series Host Adapters including BT-445S, BT-747S, BT-747D, BT-757S, BT-757D, BT-545S, BT-542D, BT-742A, BT-542B BusLogic MultiMaster A Series Host Adapters including BT-742A, BT-542B AMI FastDisk controllers that are true BusLogic MultiMaster clones are also supported. BusLogic/Mylex Flashpoint adapters are NOT yet supported. DPT SmartCACHE Plus, SmartCACHE III, SmartRAID III, SmartCACHE IV, and SmartRAID IV SCSI/RAID are supported. The DPT SmartRAID/CACHE V is not yet supported. Compaq Intelligent Disk Array Controllers: IDA, IDA-2, IAES, SMART, SMART-2/E, Smart-2/P, SMART-2SL, Integrated Array, and Smart Arrays 3200, 3100ES, 221, 4200, 4200, 4250ES. SymBios (formerly NCR) 53C810, 53C810a, 53C815, 53C820, 53C825a, 53C860, 53C875, 53C875j, 53C885, and 53C896 PCI SCSI controllers including ASUS SC-200, Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants), Diamond FirePort (all), NCR cards (all), SymBios cards (all), Tekram DC390W, 390U, and 390F, and Tyan S1365 QLogic 1020, 1040, 1040B, and 2100 SCSI and Fibre Channel Adapters DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 evaluation mode With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for SCSI-I and SCSI-II peripherals, including hard disks, optical disks, tape drives (including DAT and 8mm Exabyte), medium changers, processor target devices, and CDROM drives. WORM devices that support CDROM commands are supported for read-only access by the CDROM driver. WORM/CD-R/CD-RW writing support is provided by cdrecord, which is in the ports tree. The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time: cd - SCSI interface (includes ProAudio Spectrum and SoundBlaster SCSI) matcd - Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative Soundblaster) proprietary interface (562/563 models) scd - Sony proprietary interface (all models) acd - ATAPI IDE interface The following drivers were supported under the old SCSI subsystem, but are NOT YET supported under the new CAM SCSI subsystem: NCR5380/NCR53400 (ProAudio Spectrum) SCSI controller UltraStor 14F, 24F, and 34F SCSI controllers Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers Future Domain 8XX/950 series SCSI controllers WD7000 SCSI controller There is work-in-progress to port the UltraStor driver to the new CAM framework, but no estimates on when or if it will be completed. Unmaintained drivers, which might or might not work for your hardware: Floppy tape interface (Colorado/Mountain/Insight) mcd - Mitsumi proprietary CD-ROM interface (all models) Network Cards Adaptec Duralink PCI fast ethernet adapters based on the Adaptec AIC-6195 fast ethernet controller chip, including the following: ANA-62011 64-bit single port 10/100baseTX adapter ANA-62022 64-bit dual port 10/100baseTX adapter ANA-62044 64-bit quad port 10/100baseTX adapter ANA-69011 32-bit single port 10/100baseTX adapter ANA-62020 64-bit single port 100baseFX adapter Allied-Telesyn AT1700 and RE2000 cards Alteon Networks PCI gigabit ethernet NICs based on the Tigon 1 and Tigon 2 chipsets including the Alteon AceNIC (Tigon 1 and 2), 3Com 3c985-SX (Tigon 1 and 2), Netgear GA620 (Tigon 2), Silicon Graphics Gigabit Ethernet, DEC/Compaq EtherWORKS 1000, NEC Gigabit Ethernet AMD PCnet/PCI (79c970 and 53c974 or 79c974) RealTek 8129/8139 fast ethernet NICs including the following: Allied-Telesyn AT2550 Allied-Telesyn AT2500TX Genius GF100TXR (RTL8139) NDC Communications NE100TX-E OvisLink LEF-8129TX OvisLink LEF-8139TX Netronix Inc. EA-1210 NetEther 10/100 KTX-9130TX 10/100 Fast Ethernet Accton Cheetah EN1027D (MPX 5030/5038; RealTek 8139 clone?) SMC EZ Card 10/100 PCI 1211-TX Lite-On 98713, 98713A, 98715, and 98725 fast ethernet NICs, including the LinkSys EtherFast LNE100TX, NetGear FA310-TX Rev. D1, Matrox FastNIC 10/100, Kingston KNE110TX Macronix 98713, 98713A, 98715, 98715A, and 98725 fast ethernet NICs including the NDC Communications SFA100A (98713A), CNet Pro120A (98713 or 98713A), CNet Pro120B (98715), SVEC PN102TX (98713) Macronix/Lite-On PNIC II LC82C115 fast ethernet NICs including the LinkSys EtherFast LNE100TX version 2 Winbond W89C840F fast ethernet NICs including the Trendware TE100-PCIE VIA Technologies VT3043 Rhine I and VT86C100A Rhine II fast ethernet NICs including the Hawking Technologies PN102TX and D-Link DFE-530TX Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900 and SiS 7016 PCI fast ethernet NICs Sundance Technologies ST201 PCI fast ethernet NICs including the D-Link DFE-550TX SysKonnect SK-984x PCI gigabit ethernet cards including the SK-9841 1000baseLX (single mode fiber, single port), the SK-9842 1000baseSX (multimode fiber, single port), the SK-9843 1000baseLX (single mode fiber, dual port), and the SK-9844 1000baseSX (multimode fiber, dual port). Texas Instruments ThunderLAN PCI NICs, including the Compaq Netelligent 10, 10/100, 10/100 Proliant, 10/100 Dual-Port, 10/100 TX Embedded UTP, 10 T PCI UTP/Coax, and 10/100 TX UTP, the Compaq NetFlex 3P, 3P Integrated, and 3P w/BNC, the Olicom OC-2135/2138, OC-2325, OC-2326 10/100 TX UTP, and the Racore 8165 10/100baseTX and 8148 10baseT/100baseTX/100baseFX multi-personality cards ADMtek AL981-based and AN985-based PCI fast ethernet NICs ASIX Electronics AX88140A PCI NICs including the Alfa Inc. GFC2204 and CNet Pro110B DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205) DEC EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422) DEC DC21040, DC21041, or DC21140 based NICs (SMC Etherpower 8432T, DE245, etc.) DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs Efficient ENI-155p ATM PCI FORE PCA-200E ATM PCI Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A HP PC Lan+ cards (model numbers: 27247B and 27252A) Intel EtherExpress (not recommended due to driver instability) Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI Fast Ethernet Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit) Isolink 4110 (8 bit) Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 Ethernet interfaces PCI network cards emulating the NE2000, including the RealTek 8029, NetVin 5000, Winbond W89C940, Surecom NE-34, VIA VT86C926 3Com 3C501, 3C503 Etherlink II, 3C505 Etherlink/+, 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP, 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA), 3C590/592/595/900/905/905B/905C PCI and EISA (Fast) Etherlink III / (Fast) Etherlink XL, 3C980/3C980B Fast Etherlink XL server adapter, 3CSOHO100-TX OfficeConnect adapter Toshiba ethernet cards PCMCIA ethernet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor are also supported USB Peripherals A wide range of USB peripherals are supported. Owing to the generic nature of most USB devices, with some exceptions any device of a given class will be supported even if not explicitly listed here. USB keyboards USB mice USB printers and USB to parallel printer conversion cables USB hubs Motherboard chipsets: ALi Aladdin-V Intel 82371SB (PIIX3) and 82371AB and EB (PIIX4) chipsets NEC uPD 9210 Host Controller VIA 83C572 USB Host Controller and any other UHCI or OHCI compliant motherboard chipset (no exceptions known). PCI plug-in USB host controllers ADS Electronics PCI plug-in card (2 ports) Entrega PCI plug-in card (4 ports) Specific USB devices reported to be working: Agiler Mouse 29UO Andromeda hub Apple iMac mouse and keyboard ATen parallel printer adapter Belkin F4U002 parallel printer adapter and Belkin mouse BTC BTC7935 keyboard with mouse port Cherry G81-3504 Chic mouse Cypress mouse Entrega USB-to-parallel printer adapter Genius Niche mouse Iomega USB Zip 100 MB Kensington Mouse-in-a-Box Logitech M2452 keyboard Logictech wheel mouse (3 buttons) Logitech PS/2 / USB mouse (3 buttons) MacAlly mouse (3 buttons) MacAlly self-powered hub (4 ports) Microsoft Intellimouse (3 buttons) Microsoft keyboard NEC hub Trust Ami Mouse (3 buttons) ISDN (European DSS1 [Q.921/Q.931] protocol) Asuscom I-IN100-ST-DV (experimental, may work) Asuscom ISDNlink 128K AVM A1 AVM Fritz!Card classic AVM Fritz!Card PCI AVM Fritz!Card PCMCIA (currently FreeBSD 3.x only) AVM Fritz!Card PnP (currently FreeBSD 3.x only) Creatix ISDN-S0/8 Creatix ISDN-S0/16 Creatix ISDN-S0 PnP Dr.Neuhaus Niccy 1008 Dr.Neuhaus Niccy 1016 Dr.Neuhaus Niccy GO@ (ISA PnP) Dynalink IS64PH (no longer maintained) ELSA 1000pro ISA ELSA 1000pro PCI ELSA PCC-16 ITK ix1 micro (currently FreeBSD 3.x only) ITK ix1 micro V.3 (currently FreeBSD 3.x only) Sagem Cybermod (ISA PnP, may work) Sedlbauer Win Speed Siemens I-Surf 2.0 Stollman Tina-pp (under development) Teles S0/8 Teles S0/16 Teles S0/16.3 (the c Versions - like 16.3c - are unsupported!) Teles S0 PnP (experimental, may work) 3Com/USRobotics Sportster ISDN TA intern (non-PnP version) + + Sound Devices + + The following soundcards or codecs are supported: + + + + Advance Asound 100, 110 and Logic ALS120 + + + + Aureal Vortex1/Vortex2 and Vortex Advantage based soundcards + by a + third + party driver + + + + Creative Labs SB16, SB32, SB AWE64 (including Gold), + Vibra16, SB PCI, SB Live! and most compatible cards + + + + Crystal Semiconductor CS461x/462x Audio Accelerator + + + + Crystal Semiconductor CS428x Audio Controller + + + + CS4237, CS4236, CS4232, CS4231 (ISA) + + + + ENSONIQ AudioPCI ES1370/1371 + + + + ESS ES1868, ES1869, ES1879, ES1888 + + + + Gravis UltraSound PnP, MAX + + + + NeoMagic 256AV/ZX (PCI) + + + + OPTi931 (ISA) + + + + Trident 4DWave DX/NX (PCI) + + + + Yahama OPL-SAx (ISA) + + Miscellaneous Devices AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ ARNET (now Digiboard) Sync 570/i high-speed serial Boca BB1004 4-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported) Boca IOAT66 6-Port serial card (Modems supported) Boca BB1008 8-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported) Boca BB2016 16-Port serial card (Modems supported) Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board Moxa SmartIO CI-104J 4-Port serial card STB 4 port card using shared IRQ SDL Communications RISCom/8 Serial Board SDL Communications RISCom/N2 and N2pci high-speed sync serial boards Specialix SI/XIO/SX multiport serial cards, with both the older SIHOST2.x and the new enhanced (transputer based, aka JET) host cards; ISA, EISA and PCI are supported Stallion multiport serial boards: EasyIO, EasyConnection 8/32 & 8/64, ONboard 4/16 and Brumby Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound, and Roland MPU-401 sound cards Connectix QuickCam Matrox Meteor Video frame grabber Creative Labs Video Spigot frame grabber Cortex1 frame grabber Various frame grabbers based on the Brooktree Bt848 and Bt878 chip HP4020, HP6020, Philips CDD2000/CDD2660 and Plasmon CD-R drives Bus mice PS/2 mice Standard PC Joystick X-10 power controllers GPIB and Transputer drives Genius and Mustek hand scanners Floppy tape drives (some rather old models only, driver is rather stale) Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA and ISA standard speed (2Mbps) and turbo speed (6Mbps) wireless network adapters and workalikes (NCR WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11, Cabletron RoamAbout 802.11 DS) The ISA versions of these adapters are actually PCMCIA cards combined with an ISA to PCMCIA bridge card, so both kinds of devices work with the same driver. FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus. Troubleshooting The following section covers basic installation troubleshooting, such as common problems people have reported. There are also a few questions and answers for people wishing to dual-boot FreeBSD with MS-DOS. What to do if something goes wrong... Due to various limitations of the PC architecture, it is impossible for probing to be 100% reliable, however, there are a few things you can do if it fails. Check the supported hardware list to make sure your hardware is supported. If your hardware is supported and you still experience lock-ups or other problems, reset your computer, and when the visual kernel configuration option is given, choose it. This will allow you to go through your hardware and supply information to the system about it. The kernel on the boot disks is configured assuming that most hardware devices are in their factory default configuration in terms of IRQs, IO addresses, and DMA channels. If your hardware has been reconfigured, you will most likely need to use the configuration editor to tell FreeBSD where to find things. It is also possible that a probe for a device not present will cause a later probe for another device that is present to fail. In that case, the probes for the conflicting driver(s) should be disabled. Do not disable any drivers you will need during the installation, such as your screen (sc0). If the installation wedges or fails mysteriously after leaving the configuration editor, you have probably removed or changed something you should not have. Reboot and try again. In configuration mode, you can: List the device drivers installed in the kernel. Change device drivers for hardware that is not present in your system. Change IRQs, DRQs, and IO port addresses used by a device driver. After adjusting the kernel to match your hardware configuration, type Q to boot with the new settings. Once the installation has completed, any changes you made in the configuration mode will be permanent so you do not have to reconfigure every time you boot. It is still highly likely that you will eventually want to build a custom kernel. MS-DOS User's Questions and Answers Many users wish to install FreeBSD on PCs inhabited by MS-DOS. Here are some commonly asked questions about installing FreeBSD on such systems. Help, I have no space! Do I need to delete everything first? If your machine is already running MS-DOS and has little or no free space available for the FreeBSD installation, all hope is not lost! You may find the FIPS utility, provided in the tools directory on the FreeBSD CDROM or various FreeBSD FTP sites to be quite useful. FIPS allows you to split an existing MS-DOS partition into two pieces, preserving the original partition and allowing you to install onto the second free piece. You first defragment your MS-DOS partition using the Windows DEFRAG utility (go into Explorer, right-click on the hard drive, and choose to defrag your hard drive), or Norton Disk Tools. You then must run FIPS. It will prompt you for the rest of the information it needs. Afterwards, you can reboot and install FreeBSD on the new free slice. See the Distributions menu for an estimate of how much free space you will need for the kind of installation you want. There is also a very useful product from PowerQuest called Partition Magic. This application has far more functionality than FIPS, and is highly recommended if you plan to often add/remove operating systems (like me). However, it does cost money, and if you plan to install FreeBSD once and then leave it there, FIPS will probably be fine for you. Can I use compressed MS-DOS filesystems from FreeBSD? No. If you are using a utility such as Stacker(tm) or DoubleSpace(tm), FreeBSD will only be able to use whatever portion of the filesystem you leave uncompressed. The rest of the filesystem will show up as one large file (the stacked/double spaced file!). Do not remove that file or you will probably regret it greatly! It is probably better to create another uncompressed primary MS-DOS partition and use this for communications between MS-DOS and FreeBSD. Can I mount my extended MS-DOS partition? Yes. DOS extended partitions are mapped in at the end of the other slices in FreeBSD, e.g., your D: drive might be /dev/da0s5, your E: drive, /dev/da0s6, and so on. This example assumes, of course, that your extended partition is on SCSI drive 0. For IDE drives, substitute ad for da appropriately if installing 4.0-RELEASE or later, and substitute wd for da if you are installing a version of FreeBSD prior to 4.0. You otherwise mount extended partitions exactly like you would any other DOS drive, for example: &prompt.root; mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s5 /dos_d diff --git a/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml index 071c9fdce1..cb410615ec 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/install/chapter.sgml @@ -1,1732 +1,1794 @@ Installing FreeBSD Restructured, updated, and parts rewritten by &a.jim;, January 2000. Synopsis The following chapter will attempt to guide you through the installation of FreeBSD on your system. It can be installed through a variety of methods, including anonymous FTP (assuming you have network connectivity via modem or local network), CDROM, floppy disk, tape, an MS-DOS partition, or even NFS. No matter which method you choose, you will need to get started by creating the installation disks as described in the next section. Booting into the FreeBSD installer, even if you are not planning on installing FreeBSD right away, will provide important information about compatibility with your hardware. This information may dictate which installation options are even possible for you. It can also provide clues early-on in the process to potential problems you may come across later. If you plan to install FreeBSD via anonymous FTP, the only things you will need are the installation floppies. The installation program itself will handle anything else that is required. For more information about obtaining FreeBSD, see the Obtaining FreeBSD section of the Appendix. By now, you are probably wondering what exactly it is you need to do. Continue on to the installation guide. Installation Guide The following sections will guide you through preparing for and actually installing FreeBSD. If you find something missing, please let us know about it by sending email to the &a.doc;. Preparing for the Installation There are various things you should do in preparation for the installation. The following describes what needs to be done prior to each type of installation. The first thing to do is to make sure your hardware is supported by FreeBSD. The list of supported hardware should come in handy here. ;-) It would also be a good idea to make a list of any special cards you have installed, such as SCSI controllers, ethernet cards, sound cards, etc.. The list should include their IRQs and IO port addresses. Creating the Installation Floppies You may need to prepare some floppy disks. These disks will be used to boot your computer in to the FreeBSD install process. This step is not necessary if you are installing from CD-ROM, and your computer supports booting from the CD-ROM. If you do not meet these requirements then you will need to create some floppies to boot from. If you are not sure whether your computer can boot from the CD-ROM it does not hurt to try. Just insert the CD-ROM as normal and restart your computer. You might need to adjust some options in your BIOS so that your computer will try and boot from the CD-ROM drive before the hard disk. Even if you have the CD-ROM it might make sense for you to download the files. There have been occasions where bugs in the FreeBSD installer have been discovered after the CDs have been released. When this happens the copies of the images on the FTP site will be fixed as soon as possible. Obviously, it is not possible to update the CDs after they have been pressed. Acquire the boot floppy images These are files with a .flp extension. If you have a CD-ROM release of FreeBSD then you will find the files in the floppies subdirectory. Alternatively, you can download the images from the floppies directory of the FreeBSD FTP site or your local mirror. The names of the files you will need varies between FreeBSD releases (sometimes) and the architecture you will be installing on. The installation boot image information on the FTP site provides up-to-the-minute information about the specific files you will need. Prepare the floppy disks You must prepare one floppy disk per image file you had to download. It is imperitive that these disks are free from defects. The easiest way to test this is to format the disks for yourself. Do not trust pre-formatted floppies. If you try to install FreeBSD and the installation program crashes, freezes, or otherwise misbehaves one of the first things to suspect is the floppies. Try writing the floppy image files to some other disks, and try again. Write the image files to the floppy disks. The image files, such as kern.flp, are not regular files you copy to the disk. Instead, they are images of the complete contents of the disk. This means that you can not use commands like DOS' copy to write the files. Instead, you must use specific tools to write the images directly to the disk. If you are creating the floppies on a computer running DOS then we provide a tool to do this called fdimage. If you are using the floppies from the CD-ROM, and your CD-ROM is the E: drive then you would run this: E:\> tools\fdimage floppies\kern.flp Repeat this command for each .flp file, replacing the floppy disk each time. Adjust the command line as necessary, depending on where you have placed the .flp files. If you do not have the CD-ROM then fdimage can be downloaded from the tools directory on the FreeBSD FTP site. If you are writing the floppies on a Unix system (such as another FreeBSD system) you can use the &man.dd.1; command to write the image files directly to disk. On FreeBSD you would run: &prompt.root; dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/rfd0 On FreeBSD /dev/rfd0 refers to the first floppy disk (the A: drive). /dev/rfd1 would be the B: drive, and so on. Other Unix variants might have different names for the floppy disk devices, and you will need to check the documentation for the system as necessary. Before Installing from CDROM If your CDROM is of an unsupported type, please skip ahead to the MS-DOS Preparation section. There is not a whole lot of preparation needed if you are installing from one of Walnut Creek CDROM's FreeBSD CDROMs (other CDROM distributions may work as well, though we cannot say for certain as we have no hand or say in how they created). You can either boot into the CD installation directly from DOS using the install.bat or you can make floppies with the makeflp.bat command. If the CD has El Torito boot support and your system supports booting directly from the CDROM drive (many older systems do NOT), simply insert the first CD of the set into the drive and reboot your system. You will be put into the installation menu directly from the CD. If you are installing from an MS-DOS partition and have the proper drivers to access your CD, run the install.bat script provided on the CDROM. This will attempt to boot the FreeBSD installation directly from DOS. You must do this from actual DOS (i.e., boot in DOS mode) and not from a DOS window under Windows. For the easiest interface of all (from DOS), type view. This will bring up a DOS menu utility that leads you through all of the available options. If you are creating the boot floppies from a UNIX machine, see the Creating the Boot Floppies section of this guide for examples. Once you have booted from DOS or floppy, you should then be able to select CDROM as the media type during the install process and load the entire distribution from CDROM. No other types of installation media should be required. After your system is fully installed and you have rebooted (from the hard disk), you can mount the CDROM at any time by typing: &prompt.root; mount /cdrom Before removing the CD from the drive again, you must first unmount it. This is done with the following command: &prompt.root; umount /cdrom Do not just remove it from the drive! Before invoking the installation, be sure that the CDROM is in the drive so that the install probe can find it. This is also true if you wish the CDROM to be added to the default system configuration automatically during the installation (whether or not you actually use it as the installation media). Finally, if you would like people to be able to FTP install FreeBSD directly from the CDROM in your machine, you will find it quite easy. After the machine is fully installed, you simply need to add the following line to the password file (using the vipw command): ftp:*:99:99::0:0:FTP:/cdrom:/nonexistent Anyone with network connectivity to your machine can now chose a media type of FTP and type in ftp://your machine after picking Other in the FTP sites menu during the install. If you choose to enable anonymous FTP during the installation of your system, the installation program will do the above for you. Before installing from Floppies If you must install from floppy disk (which we suggest you do NOT do), either due to unsupported hardware or simply because you insist on doing things the hard way, you must first prepare some floppies for the installation. At a minimum, you will need as many 1.44MB or 1.2MB floppies as it takes to hold all the files in the bin (binary distribution) directory. If you are preparing the floppies from DOS, then they MUST be formatted using the MS-DOS FORMAT command. If you are using Windows, use Explorer to format the disks (right-click on the A: drive, and select "Format". Do NOT trust factory pre-formatted floppies! Format them again yourself, just to be sure. Many problems reported by our users in the past have resulted from the use of improperly formatted media, which is why we are making a point of it now. If you are creating the floppies on another FreeBSD machine, a format is still not a bad idea, though you do not need to put a DOS filesystem on each floppy. You can use the disklabel and newfs commands to put a UFS filesystem on them instead, as the following sequence of commands (for a 3.5" 1.44MB floppy) illustrates: &prompt.root; fdformat -f 1440 fd0.1440 &prompt.root; disklabel -w -r fd0.1440 floppy3 &prompt.root; newfs -t 2 -u 18 -l 1 -i 65536 /dev/rfd0 Use fd0.1200 and floppy5 for 5.25" 1.2MB disks. Then you can mount and write to them like any other filesystem. After you have formatted the floppies, you will need to copy the files to them. The distribution files are split into chunks conveniently sized so that 5 of them will fit on a conventional 1.44MB floppy. Go through all your floppies, packing as many files as will fit on each one, until you have all of the distributions you want packed up in this fashion. Each distribution should go into a subdirectory on the floppy, e.g.: a:\bin\bin.aa, a:\bin\bin.ab, and so on. Once you come to the Media screen during the install process, select Floppy and you will be prompted for the rest. Before Installing from MS-DOS To prepare for an installation from an MS-DOS partition, copy the files from the distribution into a directory named, for example, c:\FreeBSD. The directory structure of the CDROM or FTP site must be partially reproduced within this directory, so we suggest using the DOS xcopy command if you are copying it from a CD. For example, to prepare for a minimal installation of FreeBSD: C:\> md c:\FreeBSD C:\> xcopy /s e:\bin c:\FreeBSD\bin\ C:\> xcopy /s e:\manpages c:\FreeBSD\manpages\ Assuming that C: is where you have free space and E: is where your CDROM is mounted. If you do not have a CDROM drive, you can download the distribution from ftp.FreeBSD.org. Each distribution is in its own directory; for example, the bin distribution can be found in the &rel.current;/bin directory. For as many distributions you wish to install from an MS-DOS partition (and you have the free space for), install each one under c:\FreeBSD — the BIN distribution is the only one required for a minimum installation. Before Installing from QIC/SCSI Tape Installing from tape is probably the easiest method, short of an online FTP install or CDROM install. The installation program expects the files to be simply tarred onto the tape, so after getting all of the distribution files you are interested in, simply tar them onto the tape like so: &prompt.root; cd /freebsd/distdir &prompt.root; tar cvf /dev/rwt0 dist1 ... dist2 When you go to do the installation, you should also make sure that you leave enough room in some temporary directory (which you will be allowed to choose) to accommodate the full contents of the tape you have created. Due to the non-random access nature of tapes, this method of installation requires quite a bit of temporary storage. You should expect to require as much temporary storage as you have stuff written on tape. When starting the installation, the tape must be in the drive before booting from the boot floppy. The installation probe may otherwise fail to find it. Before Installing over a Network There are three types of network installations you can do. Serial port (SLIP or PPP), Parallel port (PLIP (laplink cable)), or Ethernet (a standard ethernet controller (includes some PCMCIA)). The SLIP support is rather primitive, and limited primarily to hard-wired links, such as a serial cable running between a laptop computer and another computer. The link should be hard-wired as the SLIP installation does not currently offer a dialing capability; that facility is provided with the PPP utility, which should be used in preference to SLIP whenever possible. If you are using a modem, then PPP is almost certainly your only choice. Make sure that you have your service provider's information handy as you will need to know it fairly early in the installation process. If you use PAP or CHAP to connect your ISP (in other words, if you can connect to the ISP in Windows without using a script), then all you will need to do is type in dial at the ppp prompt. Otherwise, you will need to know how to dial your ISP using the AT commands specific to your modem, as the PPP dialer provides only a very simple terminal emulator. Please to the user-ppp handbook and FAQ entries for further information. If you have problems, logging can be directed to the screen using the command set log local .... If a hard-wired connection to another FreeBSD (2.0-R or later) machine is available, you might also consider installing over a laplink parallel port cable. The data rate over the parallel port is much higher than what is typically possible over a serial line (up to 50kbytes/sec), thus resulting in a quicker installation. Finally, for the fastest possible network installation, an ethernet adapter is always a good choice! FreeBSD supports most common PC ethernet cards; a table of supported cards (and their required settings) is provided in the Supported Hardware list. If you are using one of the supported PCMCIA ethernet cards, also be sure that it is plugged in before the laptop is powered on! FreeBSD does not, unfortunately, currently support hot insertion of PCMCIA cards during installation. You will also need to know your IP address on the network, the netmask value for your address class, and the name of your machine. If you are installing over a PPP connection and do not have a static IP, fear not, the IP address can be dynamically assigned by your ISP. Your system administrator can tell you which values to use for your particular network setup. If you will be referring to other hosts by name rather than IP address, you will also need a name server and possibly the address of a gateway (if you are using PPP, it is your provider's IP address) to use in talking to it. If you do not know the answers to all or most of these questions, then you should really probably talk to your system administrator or ISP before trying this type of installation. Before Installing via NFS The NFS installation is fairly straight-forward. Simply copy the FreeBSD distribution files you want onto a server somewhere and then point the NFS media selection at it. If this server supports only privileged port (as is generally the default for Sun workstations), you will need to set this option in the Options menu before installation can proceed. If you have a poor quality ethernet card which suffers from very slow transfer rates, you may also wish to toggle the appropriate Options flag. In order for NFS installation to work, the server must support subdir mounts, e.g., if your FreeBSD 3.4 distribution directory lives on:ziggy:/usr/archive/stuff/FreeBSD, then ziggy will have to allow the direct mounting of /usr/archive/stuff/FreeBSD, not just /usr or /usr/archive/stuff. In FreeBSD's /etc/exports file, this is controlled by the . Other NFS servers may have different conventions. If you are getting permission denied messages from the server, then it is likely that you do not have this enabled properly. Before Installing via FTP FTP installation may be done from any FreeBSD mirror site containing a reasonably up-to-date version of FreeBSD. A full list of FTP mirrors located all over the world is provided during the install process. If you are installing from an FTP site not listed in this menu, or are having trouble getting your name server configured properly, you can also specify a URL to use by selecting the choice labeled Other in that menu. You can also use the IP address of a machine you wish to install from, so the following would work in the absence of a name server: ftp://209.55.82.20/pub/FreeBSD/&rel.current;-RELEASE There are two FTP installation modes you can choose from: active or passive FTP. FTP Active This option will make all FTP transfers use Active mode. This will not work through firewalls, but will often work with older FTP servers that do not support passive mode. If your connection hangs with passive mode (the default), try active! FTP Passive This option instructs FreeBSD to use Passive mode for all FTP operations. This allows the user to pass through firewalls that do not allow incoming connections on random port addresses. Active and passive modes are not the same as a proxy connection, where a proxy FTP server is listening and forwarding FTP requests! For a proxy FTP server, you should usually give the name of the server you really want as a part of the username, after an @ sign. The proxy server then fakes the real server. For example, assuming you want to install from ftp.FreeBSD.org, using the proxy FTP server foo.bar.com, listening on port 1024. In this case, you go to the options menu, set the FTP username to ftp@ftp.FreeBSD.org, and the password to your email address. As your installation media, you specify FTP (or passive FTP, if the proxy supports it), and the URL ftp://foo.bar.com:1234/pub/FreeBSD. Since /pub/FreeBSD from ftp.FreeBSD.org is proxied under foo.bar.com, you are able to install from that machine (which will fetch the files from ftp.FreeBSD.org as your installation requests them. Check your BIOS drive numbering If you have used features in your BIOS to renumber your disk drives without recabling them then you should read first to ensure you do not confused. Installing FreeBSD Once you have completed the pre-installation step relevant to your situation, you are ready to install FreeBSD! Although you should not experience any difficulty, there is always the chance that you may, no matter how slight it is. If this is the case in your situation, then you may wish to go back and re-read the relevant preparation section or sections. Perhaps you will come across something you missed the first time. If you are having hardware problems, or FreeBSD refuses to boot at all, read the Hardware Guide on the boot floppy for a list of possible solutions. The FreeBSD boot floppies contain all of the online documentation you should need to be able to navigate through an installation. If it does not, please let us know what you found to be the most confusing or most lacking. Send your comments to the &a.doc;. It is the objective of the installation program (sysinstall) to be self-documenting enough that painful step-by-step guides are no longer necessary. It may take us a little while to reach that objective, but nonetheless, it is still our objective :-) Meanwhile, you may also find the following typical installation sequence to be helpful: Boot the kern.flp floppy and when asked, remove it and insert the mfsroot.flp and hit return. After a boot sequence which can take anywhere from 30 seconds to 3 minutes, depending on your hardware, you should be presented with a menu of initial choices. If the kern.flp floppy does not boot at all or the boot hangs at some stage, read the Q&A section of the Hardware Guide on the floppy for possible causes. Press F1. You should see some basic usage instructions on the menu screen and general navigation. If you have not used this menu system before then please read this thoroughly. Select the Options item and set any special preferences you may have. Select a Standard, Express, or Custom install, depending on whether or not you would like the installation to help you through a typical installation, give you a high degree of control over each step, or simply whiz through it (using reasonable defaults when possible) as fast as possible. If you have never used FreeBSD before, the Standard installation method is most recommended. The final configuration menu choice allows you to further configure your FreeBSD installation by giving you menu-driven access to various system defaults. Some items, like networking, may be especially important if you did a CDROM, tape, or floppy install and have not yet configured your network interfaces (assuming you have any). Properly configuring such interfaces here will allow FreeBSD to come up on the network when you first reboot from the hard disk. Supported Hardware FreeBSD currently runs on a wide variety of ISA, VLB, EISA, and PCI bus based PCs, ranging from the 386SX to Pentium class machines (though the 386SX is not recommended). Support for generic IDE or ESDI drive configurations, various SCSI controllers, and network and serial cards is also provided. In order to run FreeBSD, a recommended minimum of eight megabytes of RAM is suggested. Sixteen megabytes is the preferred amount of RAM as you may have some trouble with anything less than sixteen depending on your hardware. What follows is a list of hardware currently known to work with FreeBSD. There may be other hardware that works as well, but we have simply not received any confirmation of it. Disk Controllers WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL) WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI) IDE ATA Adaptec 1535 ISA SCSI controllers Adaptec 154X series ISA SCSI controllers Adaptec 174X series EISA SCSI controllers in standard and enhanced mode Adaptec 274X/284X/2920C/294X/2950/3940/3950 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI controllers Adaptec AIC-7850, AIC-7860, AIC-7880, AIC-789X on-board SCSI controllers Adaptec 1510 series ISA SCSI controllers (not for bootable devices) Adaptec 152X series ISA SCSI controllers Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which include the AHA-152X and SoundBlaster SCSI cards AdvanSys SCSI controllers (all models) BusLogic MultiMaster W Series Host Adapters including BT-948, BT-958, BT-9580 BusLogic MultiMaster C Series Host Adapters including BT-946C, BT-956C, BT-956CD, BT-445C, BT-747C, BT-757C, BT-757CD, BT-545C, BT-540CF BusLogic MultiMaster S Series Host Adapters including BT-445S, BT-747S, BT-747D, BT-757S, BT-757D, BT-545S, BT-542D, BT-742A, BT-542B BusLogic MultiMaster A Series Host Adapters including BT-742A, BT-542B AMI FastDisk controllers that are true BusLogic MultiMaster clones are also supported. BusLogic/Mylex Flashpoint adapters are NOT yet supported. DPT SmartCACHE Plus, SmartCACHE III, SmartRAID III, SmartCACHE IV, and SmartRAID IV SCSI/RAID are supported. The DPT SmartRAID/CACHE V is not yet supported. Compaq Intelligent Disk Array Controllers: IDA, IDA-2, IAES, SMART, SMART-2/E, Smart-2/P, SMART-2SL, Integrated Array, and Smart Arrays 3200, 3100ES, 221, 4200, 4200, 4250ES. SymBios (formerly NCR) 53C810, 53C810a, 53C815, 53C820, 53C825a, 53C860, 53C875, 53C875j, 53C885, and 53C896 PCI SCSI controllers including ASUS SC-200, Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants), Diamond FirePort (all), NCR cards (all), SymBios cards (all), Tekram DC390W, 390U, and 390F, and Tyan S1365 QLogic 1020, 1040, 1040B, and 2100 SCSI and Fibre Channel Adapters DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 evaluation mode With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for SCSI-I and SCSI-II peripherals, including hard disks, optical disks, tape drives (including DAT and 8mm Exabyte), medium changers, processor target devices, and CDROM drives. WORM devices that support CDROM commands are supported for read-only access by the CDROM driver. WORM/CD-R/CD-RW writing support is provided by cdrecord, which is in the ports tree. The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time: cd - SCSI interface (includes ProAudio Spectrum and SoundBlaster SCSI) matcd - Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative Soundblaster) proprietary interface (562/563 models) scd - Sony proprietary interface (all models) acd - ATAPI IDE interface The following drivers were supported under the old SCSI subsystem, but are NOT YET supported under the new CAM SCSI subsystem: NCR5380/NCR53400 (ProAudio Spectrum) SCSI controller UltraStor 14F, 24F, and 34F SCSI controllers Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers Future Domain 8XX/950 series SCSI controllers WD7000 SCSI controller There is work-in-progress to port the UltraStor driver to the new CAM framework, but no estimates on when or if it will be completed. Unmaintained drivers, which might or might not work for your hardware: Floppy tape interface (Colorado/Mountain/Insight) mcd - Mitsumi proprietary CD-ROM interface (all models) Network Cards Adaptec Duralink PCI fast ethernet adapters based on the Adaptec AIC-6195 fast ethernet controller chip, including the following: ANA-62011 64-bit single port 10/100baseTX adapter ANA-62022 64-bit dual port 10/100baseTX adapter ANA-62044 64-bit quad port 10/100baseTX adapter ANA-69011 32-bit single port 10/100baseTX adapter ANA-62020 64-bit single port 100baseFX adapter Allied-Telesyn AT1700 and RE2000 cards Alteon Networks PCI gigabit ethernet NICs based on the Tigon 1 and Tigon 2 chipsets including the Alteon AceNIC (Tigon 1 and 2), 3Com 3c985-SX (Tigon 1 and 2), Netgear GA620 (Tigon 2), Silicon Graphics Gigabit Ethernet, DEC/Compaq EtherWORKS 1000, NEC Gigabit Ethernet AMD PCnet/PCI (79c970 and 53c974 or 79c974) RealTek 8129/8139 fast ethernet NICs including the following: Allied-Telesyn AT2550 Allied-Telesyn AT2500TX Genius GF100TXR (RTL8139) NDC Communications NE100TX-E OvisLink LEF-8129TX OvisLink LEF-8139TX Netronix Inc. EA-1210 NetEther 10/100 KTX-9130TX 10/100 Fast Ethernet Accton Cheetah EN1027D (MPX 5030/5038; RealTek 8139 clone?) SMC EZ Card 10/100 PCI 1211-TX Lite-On 98713, 98713A, 98715, and 98725 fast ethernet NICs, including the LinkSys EtherFast LNE100TX, NetGear FA310-TX Rev. D1, Matrox FastNIC 10/100, Kingston KNE110TX Macronix 98713, 98713A, 98715, 98715A, and 98725 fast ethernet NICs including the NDC Communications SFA100A (98713A), CNet Pro120A (98713 or 98713A), CNet Pro120B (98715), SVEC PN102TX (98713) Macronix/Lite-On PNIC II LC82C115 fast ethernet NICs including the LinkSys EtherFast LNE100TX version 2 Winbond W89C840F fast ethernet NICs including the Trendware TE100-PCIE VIA Technologies VT3043 Rhine I and VT86C100A Rhine II fast ethernet NICs including the Hawking Technologies PN102TX and D-Link DFE-530TX Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900 and SiS 7016 PCI fast ethernet NICs Sundance Technologies ST201 PCI fast ethernet NICs including the D-Link DFE-550TX SysKonnect SK-984x PCI gigabit ethernet cards including the SK-9841 1000baseLX (single mode fiber, single port), the SK-9842 1000baseSX (multimode fiber, single port), the SK-9843 1000baseLX (single mode fiber, dual port), and the SK-9844 1000baseSX (multimode fiber, dual port). Texas Instruments ThunderLAN PCI NICs, including the Compaq Netelligent 10, 10/100, 10/100 Proliant, 10/100 Dual-Port, 10/100 TX Embedded UTP, 10 T PCI UTP/Coax, and 10/100 TX UTP, the Compaq NetFlex 3P, 3P Integrated, and 3P w/BNC, the Olicom OC-2135/2138, OC-2325, OC-2326 10/100 TX UTP, and the Racore 8165 10/100baseTX and 8148 10baseT/100baseTX/100baseFX multi-personality cards ADMtek AL981-based and AN985-based PCI fast ethernet NICs ASIX Electronics AX88140A PCI NICs including the Alfa Inc. GFC2204 and CNet Pro110B DEC EtherWORKS III NICs (DE203, DE204, and DE205) DEC EtherWORKS II NICs (DE200, DE201, DE202, and DE422) DEC DC21040, DC21041, or DC21140 based NICs (SMC Etherpower 8432T, DE245, etc.) DEC FDDI (DEFPA/DEFEA) NICs Efficient ENI-155p ATM PCI FORE PCA-200E ATM PCI Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A HP PC Lan+ cards (model numbers: 27247B and 27252A) Intel EtherExpress (not recommended due to driver instability) Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B PCI Fast Ethernet Isolan AT 4141-0 (16 bit) Isolink 4110 (8 bit) Novell NE1000, NE2000, and NE2100 Ethernet interfaces PCI network cards emulating the NE2000, including the RealTek 8029, NetVin 5000, Winbond W89C940, Surecom NE-34, VIA VT86C926 3Com 3C501, 3C503 Etherlink II, 3C505 Etherlink/+, 3C507 Etherlink 16/TP, 3C509, 3C579, 3C589 (PCMCIA), 3C590/592/595/900/905/905B/905C PCI and EISA (Fast) Etherlink III / (Fast) Etherlink XL, 3C980/3C980B Fast Etherlink XL server adapter, 3CSOHO100-TX OfficeConnect adapter Toshiba ethernet cards PCMCIA ethernet cards from IBM and National Semiconductor are also supported USB Peripherals A wide range of USB peripherals are supported. Owing to the generic nature of most USB devices, with some exceptions any device of a given class will be supported even if not explicitly listed here. USB keyboards USB mice USB printers and USB to parallel printer conversion cables USB hubs Motherboard chipsets: ALi Aladdin-V Intel 82371SB (PIIX3) and 82371AB and EB (PIIX4) chipsets NEC uPD 9210 Host Controller VIA 83C572 USB Host Controller and any other UHCI or OHCI compliant motherboard chipset (no exceptions known). PCI plug-in USB host controllers ADS Electronics PCI plug-in card (2 ports) Entrega PCI plug-in card (4 ports) Specific USB devices reported to be working: Agiler Mouse 29UO Andromeda hub Apple iMac mouse and keyboard ATen parallel printer adapter Belkin F4U002 parallel printer adapter and Belkin mouse BTC BTC7935 keyboard with mouse port Cherry G81-3504 Chic mouse Cypress mouse Entrega USB-to-parallel printer adapter Genius Niche mouse Iomega USB Zip 100 MB Kensington Mouse-in-a-Box Logitech M2452 keyboard Logictech wheel mouse (3 buttons) Logitech PS/2 / USB mouse (3 buttons) MacAlly mouse (3 buttons) MacAlly self-powered hub (4 ports) Microsoft Intellimouse (3 buttons) Microsoft keyboard NEC hub Trust Ami Mouse (3 buttons) ISDN (European DSS1 [Q.921/Q.931] protocol) Asuscom I-IN100-ST-DV (experimental, may work) Asuscom ISDNlink 128K AVM A1 AVM Fritz!Card classic AVM Fritz!Card PCI AVM Fritz!Card PCMCIA (currently FreeBSD 3.x only) AVM Fritz!Card PnP (currently FreeBSD 3.x only) Creatix ISDN-S0/8 Creatix ISDN-S0/16 Creatix ISDN-S0 PnP Dr.Neuhaus Niccy 1008 Dr.Neuhaus Niccy 1016 Dr.Neuhaus Niccy GO@ (ISA PnP) Dynalink IS64PH (no longer maintained) ELSA 1000pro ISA ELSA 1000pro PCI ELSA PCC-16 ITK ix1 micro (currently FreeBSD 3.x only) ITK ix1 micro V.3 (currently FreeBSD 3.x only) Sagem Cybermod (ISA PnP, may work) Sedlbauer Win Speed Siemens I-Surf 2.0 Stollman Tina-pp (under development) Teles S0/8 Teles S0/16 Teles S0/16.3 (the c Versions - like 16.3c - are unsupported!) Teles S0 PnP (experimental, may work) 3Com/USRobotics Sportster ISDN TA intern (non-PnP version) + + Sound Devices + + The following soundcards or codecs are supported: + + + + Advance Asound 100, 110 and Logic ALS120 + + + + Aureal Vortex1/Vortex2 and Vortex Advantage based soundcards + by a + third + party driver + + + + Creative Labs SB16, SB32, SB AWE64 (including Gold), + Vibra16, SB PCI, SB Live! and most compatible cards + + + + Crystal Semiconductor CS461x/462x Audio Accelerator + + + + Crystal Semiconductor CS428x Audio Controller + + + + CS4237, CS4236, CS4232, CS4231 (ISA) + + + + ENSONIQ AudioPCI ES1370/1371 + + + + ESS ES1868, ES1869, ES1879, ES1888 + + + + Gravis UltraSound PnP, MAX + + + + NeoMagic 256AV/ZX (PCI) + + + + OPTi931 (ISA) + + + + Trident 4DWave DX/NX (PCI) + + + + Yahama OPL-SAx (ISA) + + Miscellaneous Devices AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ ARNET (now Digiboard) Sync 570/i high-speed serial Boca BB1004 4-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported) Boca IOAT66 6-Port serial card (Modems supported) Boca BB1008 8-Port serial card (Modems NOT supported) Boca BB2016 16-Port serial card (Modems supported) Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board Moxa SmartIO CI-104J 4-Port serial card STB 4 port card using shared IRQ SDL Communications RISCom/8 Serial Board SDL Communications RISCom/N2 and N2pci high-speed sync serial boards Specialix SI/XIO/SX multiport serial cards, with both the older SIHOST2.x and the new enhanced (transputer based, aka JET) host cards; ISA, EISA and PCI are supported Stallion multiport serial boards: EasyIO, EasyConnection 8/32 & 8/64, ONboard 4/16 and Brumby Adlib, SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, ProAudioSpectrum, Gravis UltraSound, and Roland MPU-401 sound cards Connectix QuickCam Matrox Meteor Video frame grabber Creative Labs Video Spigot frame grabber Cortex1 frame grabber Various frame grabbers based on the Brooktree Bt848 and Bt878 chip HP4020, HP6020, Philips CDD2000/CDD2660 and Plasmon CD-R drives Bus mice PS/2 mice Standard PC Joystick X-10 power controllers GPIB and Transputer drives Genius and Mustek hand scanners Floppy tape drives (some rather old models only, driver is rather stale) Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA and ISA standard speed (2Mbps) and turbo speed (6Mbps) wireless network adapters and workalikes (NCR WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11, Cabletron RoamAbout 802.11 DS) The ISA versions of these adapters are actually PCMCIA cards combined with an ISA to PCMCIA bridge card, so both kinds of devices work with the same driver. FreeBSD currently does NOT support IBM's microchannel (MCA) bus. Troubleshooting The following section covers basic installation troubleshooting, such as common problems people have reported. There are also a few questions and answers for people wishing to dual-boot FreeBSD with MS-DOS. What to do if something goes wrong... Due to various limitations of the PC architecture, it is impossible for probing to be 100% reliable, however, there are a few things you can do if it fails. Check the supported hardware list to make sure your hardware is supported. If your hardware is supported and you still experience lock-ups or other problems, reset your computer, and when the visual kernel configuration option is given, choose it. This will allow you to go through your hardware and supply information to the system about it. The kernel on the boot disks is configured assuming that most hardware devices are in their factory default configuration in terms of IRQs, IO addresses, and DMA channels. If your hardware has been reconfigured, you will most likely need to use the configuration editor to tell FreeBSD where to find things. It is also possible that a probe for a device not present will cause a later probe for another device that is present to fail. In that case, the probes for the conflicting driver(s) should be disabled. Do not disable any drivers you will need during the installation, such as your screen (sc0). If the installation wedges or fails mysteriously after leaving the configuration editor, you have probably removed or changed something you should not have. Reboot and try again. In configuration mode, you can: List the device drivers installed in the kernel. Change device drivers for hardware that is not present in your system. Change IRQs, DRQs, and IO port addresses used by a device driver. After adjusting the kernel to match your hardware configuration, type Q to boot with the new settings. Once the installation has completed, any changes you made in the configuration mode will be permanent so you do not have to reconfigure every time you boot. It is still highly likely that you will eventually want to build a custom kernel. MS-DOS User's Questions and Answers Many users wish to install FreeBSD on PCs inhabited by MS-DOS. Here are some commonly asked questions about installing FreeBSD on such systems. Help, I have no space! Do I need to delete everything first? If your machine is already running MS-DOS and has little or no free space available for the FreeBSD installation, all hope is not lost! You may find the FIPS utility, provided in the tools directory on the FreeBSD CDROM or various FreeBSD FTP sites to be quite useful. FIPS allows you to split an existing MS-DOS partition into two pieces, preserving the original partition and allowing you to install onto the second free piece. You first defragment your MS-DOS partition using the Windows DEFRAG utility (go into Explorer, right-click on the hard drive, and choose to defrag your hard drive), or Norton Disk Tools. You then must run FIPS. It will prompt you for the rest of the information it needs. Afterwards, you can reboot and install FreeBSD on the new free slice. See the Distributions menu for an estimate of how much free space you will need for the kind of installation you want. There is also a very useful product from PowerQuest called Partition Magic. This application has far more functionality than FIPS, and is highly recommended if you plan to often add/remove operating systems (like me). However, it does cost money, and if you plan to install FreeBSD once and then leave it there, FIPS will probably be fine for you. Can I use compressed MS-DOS filesystems from FreeBSD? No. If you are using a utility such as Stacker(tm) or DoubleSpace(tm), FreeBSD will only be able to use whatever portion of the filesystem you leave uncompressed. The rest of the filesystem will show up as one large file (the stacked/double spaced file!). Do not remove that file or you will probably regret it greatly! It is probably better to create another uncompressed primary MS-DOS partition and use this for communications between MS-DOS and FreeBSD. Can I mount my extended MS-DOS partition? Yes. DOS extended partitions are mapped in at the end of the other slices in FreeBSD, e.g., your D: drive might be /dev/da0s5, your E: drive, /dev/da0s6, and so on. This example assumes, of course, that your extended partition is on SCSI drive 0. For IDE drives, substitute ad for da appropriately if installing 4.0-RELEASE or later, and substitute wd for da if you are installing a version of FreeBSD prior to 4.0. You otherwise mount extended partitions exactly like you would any other DOS drive, for example: &prompt.root; mount -t msdos /dev/ad0s5 /dos_d