Date: Sun, 3 Mar 02 17:08:31 PST From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: installation/setup attempt not going well Message-ID: <10203040108.AA08008@pluto.rain.com>
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I have installed and administered many Unix flavors -- the list is at the end -- but I am having the very devil of a time trying to set up FreeBSD 4.5. I am confident that I have done more wrong than right while installing from CD, but have got to the point where I can log in. I expect to blow the whole thing away and start over, but would prefer to do that only once. If I try to start over now, I'll surely have to throw away the second attempt also. 1. I would prefer to retrieve the list of installed packages, and use that list as a starting point next time, instead of wasting an hour digging through the package selection menus again. Is this possible? 2. The first login prompt showed the hostname as "amnesiac" or some such, and after I logged in hostname(1) produced a blank line. I suppose this is related to the fact that, when I tried to set up networking during install, the only choices offered were variants on PPP and SLIP: it evidently hadn't noticed the 3C509. I hadn't been able to find it in the collection of network drivers during kernel configuration, either. Am I mistaken about having seen the 3C509 in the supported hardware list? (I'd actually prefer use a PCI network card based on the Intel 82596 chip instead, but I hadn't been able to find that chip in the supported list.) 3. I tried to patch things up using /stand/sysinstall, and did not get very far. The first time I tried to su, it said I wasn't in the "wheel" group. I don't recall the initial account setup, during install, having suggested that. (Fixed by logging in as root -- which one is not supposed to do? -- and editing /etc/group.) 4. At this point, I could log in, su, and run /stand/sysinstall. I selected Configure, then Networking, then Interfaces. The 3C509 is still not listed, but there is a "faith0" identified as <unknown network interface type>. I selected that, then No to IPv6 and DHCP. Now I can finally enter a hostname, IP address, etc; but even after OK there's no place to identify the driver that I want it to use. I suppose these 2 lines (from the dmesg) are related; but what is the meaning of identifying the irq, then claiming that there isn't one? ep0: <3Com 3C509-Combo EtherLink III> at port 0x210-0x21f irq 10 on isa0 ep0: No irq?! 5. Farther down the "Network Services Menu" my installation choices to enable NFS server and client are shown, but doesn't NFS require the portmapper? It's not shown as enabled. F1 does nothing at all. 6. The last line is "TCP Extensions Allow RFC1323 and RFC1644 TCP extensions?" How do I decide whether or not I want these? F1 doesn't work here, either. 7. XF86Setup doesn't seem to like my Trident TGUI9680 card. It's in the list, but an attempt to select it results in *** The server required by your card is not installed! Please abort, install the unknown server as /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_unknown and run this program again *** That's not very helpful at all! How do I go about "installing the unknown server"? Where do I find it? And above all, why doesn't this allegedly-friendly setup program KNOW where to find it????? 8. Three lines below "XFree86" is a line "Load KLD Load a KLD from a floppy". Unlike items 5 and 6 above, F1 does something here; but the screen gives no clue as to what a KLD is or why I might need to load one. uname -a says FreeBSD saturn 4.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #0: Mon Jan 28 14:31:56 GMT 2002 murray@builder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 dmesg says Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #0: Mon Jan 28 14:31:56 GMT 2002 murray@builder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (267.27-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x634 Stepping = 4 Features=0x80f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,MMX> real memory = 50331648 (49152K bytes) config> di pcic0 config> di sn0 config> di lnc0 config> di ie0 config> di fe0 config> di ed0 config> di cs0 config> di bt0 config> di aic0 config> di aha0 config> di adv0 config> q avail memory = 44347392 (43308K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0496000. Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc049609c. Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled md0: Malloc disk Using $PIR table, 7 entries at 0xc00f0cc0 npx0: <math processor> on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: <Intel 82443LX (440 LX) host to PCI bridge> on motherboard pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0 pcib1: <Intel 82443LX (440 LX) PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1 isab0: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 4.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> port 0xd800-0xd80f at device 4.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 uhci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> port 0xd400-0xd41f irq 10 at device 4.2 on pci0 usb0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered chip1: <Intel 82371AB Power management controller> port 0xe800-0xe80f at device 4.3 on pci0 pci0: <Trident model 9660 VGA-compatible display device> at 11.0 irq 11 orm0: <Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0 ep0: <3Com 3C509-Combo EtherLink III> at port 0x210-0x21f irq 10 on isa0 ep0: No irq?! ep0: ep_alloc() failed! (6) device_probe_and_attach: ep0 attach returned 6 fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 sio1: type 16550A ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/9 bytes threshold plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0 ad0: 4126MB <ST34313A> [8944/15/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 acd0: CDROM <LTN301> at ata1-master using PIO4 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a Finally, here's the promised list of Unix variants: 6th edition on a PDP-11; SunOS 3.5, 4.0, and 4.1; UnixWare 1 and 2; Solaris 1 and 2; Red Hat Linux 6.2; OpenBSD 3.0. 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