Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 17:18:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Balaji Srinivasan <balaji@eecs.ukans.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960423171354.8313A-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199604232244.RAA22263@meyer.eecs.ukans.edu.eecs.ukans.edu>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I'm putting this back into questions so someone will check me on whether the EtherEZ is supported. On Tue, 23 Apr 1996, Balaji Srinivasan wrote: > > That is not the ethernet card, unles you're using a parallel port cable > > as the network. What are you using for an install method? I'd better > > find out exactly what you're wanting to do here. > > > Well what I am trying to do is install FreeBSD over the network using > a SMC Ether EZ ethernet adapter. There was no option in the setup > script asking specifically for an network installation using ethernet Hm. I don't know which driver supports the SMC, I think it's the ed0 driver. You need to type -c at the Boot: prompt and make sure the settings for ed0 are for your ethernet card. > Use Serial POrt ..... > Use lp0 .........(or somthing to that effect) > > In the text it said that we should use lp0 if we wanted to use a standard > ethernet card. No, that should have read ed0. lp0 lets you do TCP/IP over a parallel cable (like LapLink). > How do i install over a network (I need to install from FTP/NFS) Once the system can find the ethernet card the rest is easy. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.91.960423171354.8313A-100000>