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Installation questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew J Lynn)
Fri Nov 13 16:50:46 1998
To: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 16:50:37 EST
From: Andrew J Lynn <alynn@MIT.EDU>
I am trying to install Athena 8.2 NetBSD on an IBM Intellistation M-Pro
machine. I have a few issues:
The onboard ethernet hardware is Intel 82557-based PCI 10/100, at IRQ 12,
I/O Address 0x78E0. I booted from the standard install disk to see if it
would be happy. It detected it as EtherExpress 10/100+ at IRQ 10, got to
the point right after asking for my IP address where it tests the
ethernet card, and froze up, or did a reasonable impression thereof. Is
there an installer (or would somebody mind building one and having me
eternally in your debt) that is happy with this card and these settings?
I'm running NT right now, the PnPray support of which is very limited, so
I can't figure out a decent way of changing the IRQ and port for the card.
NT has a boot loader. NetBSD presumably wants to have a bootloader. NT's
boot loader is stupid, and NetBSD's is not much like lilo, and I haven't
figured it out yet. Now, I know that there exist people who dual-boot NT
and NetBSD. How do these people deal? Can I install NetBSD but not the
boot loader, and rely on NT's bootloader to deal, as I would if I wanted
NT and DOS? Is it a matter of getting NetBSD's boot loader to install
in NetBSD's partition and having NT's boot loader point to it, as I did in
days of yore with Linux and OS/2?
Also, the graphics card is a Permedia2 AGP card. I've seen a free XF86
server for it for Linux, and Accelerated X supports it but costs money.
Does anybody know of a free XF86-Permedia for NetBSD?
That's all I can think of for now. Thanks in advance.
-Andy
