From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 16 12: 9:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C748C155D5 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 12:09:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Received: from eboa.com (n669.telekabel.euronet.nl [194.134.130.170]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA24131; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:09:44 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from eboa.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by eboa.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA58479; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:13:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Message-ID: <3767F715.8805EEFA@eboa.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:12:21 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PINAY Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I give up!! 3.1 install Q... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG PINAY wrote: > > Please help! > > I've tried installing from the 3.1 cd about 20 times (no exageration) - > I've tried every permutation of possible config scenario in order to > troubleshoot what is wrong and I'm out of inspiration. > > After doing what looks like a clean install, the system boots, all the > filesystems check clean, then the system hangs at the message: > "Doing initial network setup: hostname." At this point I've let the The 3.1 I use failed to write the configuration you declared during install to the proper location. Meaning that on every boot you should re-enter those parameters. Until, of course, you put that file where it belongs or roll your own kernel. Maybe it is something simple like that? Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message