Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 11:19:44 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> Cc: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD current users) Subject: Re: Installation: still not perfect Message-ID: <199612041819.LAA10954@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199612041747.SAA19269@freebie.lemis.de> References: <199612041747.SAA19269@freebie.lemis.de>
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> 1. I am doing the installation on a notebook (AcerNote Light, if > anybody's interested; 75 MHz Pentium, 24 MB main memory in my > config, 528 MB hard disk, 2 PCMCIA slots, in one of which I have a > 3Com 3C585C). This is a *supported* configuration for all recent releases (starting with 2.0.5). > 2. This machine doesn't have a CD-ROM, so I had intended to install > via the Ethernet board. The boot kernel recognizes the Ethernet > board, thinks it initializes it, but nothing comes out. It may be using the wrong network connector. You may have to tell it to use a different connector using the '-link0 link1' OR 'link0 -link1' flags. > This > appears to be due to the fact that it doesn't have PCMCIA > support. If this is the case, it would be nice (a) for the driver > to notice the fact and not pretend that everything's working, and > (b) to have a boot diskette which does support notebooks. The boot disk you have supports the 3Com PCMCIA cards fine, *as long* as the driver is configured to use the IRQ/port/IOMEM values stored in the card's ROM *AND* the correct network adaptor is selected using the link flags. > 3. It may be that the Ethernet board is defective. It's difficult to > be sure: 3Com have designed what must be a superlative in their > line of decreasingly useful diagnostic software. I returned one > Ethernet board after the diagnostics said it was bad, but the > other one behaves just the same: if I write the config info first, > the diag software passes, but if I then stop the program and > re-enter, it fails again (can't find the registers). Has anybody > else seen this? Hmm, I haven't seen this. Are you using card-services before you run the configuration file. > 4. So, I thought, let's try using lp0 as the interface. Doesn't > work: it looks as if the setup scripts aren't expecting a > point-to-point connection, and they don't specify the address of > the other end of the link, so ifconfig fails. Is there a trick > here? Yep, use the 'additional parameters' portion of the network setup to specify the remote address. (This is also necessary for the link parameters). > 5. OK, let's do a floppy install of the minimum necessary. That > doesn't work either, although I stuck to the letter of what the > installation scripts say. Looking at the debug output under F2, > it shows that it succeeded in mounting the disks (I tried both > MS-DOG and ufs formats) on /dist, and then went looking for > /dist/bin/bin.tgz and /dist/bin/bin.inf, which it didn't find. > There's nothing in any documentation I know about which even > mentions these files. Hmm, unless the documentation has changed, it *specifically* says to create the dists directories on the floppies. Nate
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