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Answer some recently asked questions.

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<author>Maintainer: Peter da Silva <tt><htmlurl url='mailto:pds@FreeBSD.ORG'
name='&lt;pds@FreeBSD.ORG&gt;'></tt>
<date>$Date: 1997/01/16 03:51:28 $
<date>$Date: 1997/01/16 06:27:18 $
<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.
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should only be required if you are using ISA devices, although
one or two broken EISA and VLB devices may need it as well).
Also look at the section on <ref id="reallybigram"
name="&gt;64M machines"> if you have that much memory.
<sect1>
<heading>I keep seeing messages like ``<tt/ed1: timeout/''.</heading>
<p>
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<heading>I have a laptop with a track-ball mouse.</heading>
<p>
Please refer to the answer to the previous question.
Please refer to <ref id="ps2mouse" name="the answer to the previous question">.
<sect1>
<heading>What types of tape drives are supported under FreeBSD?</heading>
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options "SCSI_DELAY=15"
</verb>
<sect1>
<heading>How do I mount a secondary DOS partition?</heading>
<p>
The secondary DOS partitions are found after ALL the primary
partitions. For example, if you have an "E" partition as the
second DOS partition on the second SCSI drive, you need to create
the special files for "slice 5" in /dev, then mount /dev/sd1s5:
<verb>
% cd /dev
% ./MAKEDEV sd1s5
% mount -t msdos /dev/sd1s5 /dos/e
</verb>
<sect1>
<heading>How can I use the NT loader to boot FreeBSD?</heading>
<p>
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GIMP. 256Kb is plenty for X11R6 shared memory.
<sect1>
<heading>I have 128 MB of RAM but the system only uses 64 MB.</heading>
<heading>I have 128 MB of RAM but the system only uses 64 MB.<label id="reallybigram"></heading>
<p>
Due to the manner in which FreeBSD gets the memory size from the