From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 27 17:26:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA07431 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 17:26:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA07426 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 17:26:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA20798; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 17:26:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 17:26:05 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Ivan Passos cc: support@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.5 In-Reply-To: <347CBA25.9ED2384A@cyclades.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Ivan Passos wrote: > I have installed FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE in my HD and I found its > installation utility quite confusing. I installed other FreeBSD > distributions in the past (2.1.6, 2.2.0 and 2.2.2) with no problems, > and the 2.2.5 is running, but I'm having to configure some things > by hand that were pre-configured during installation in the previous > releases. Well, maybe I was too dumb to find these steps during > installation, but in the previous ones I didn't have to look for > them ... I found that /etc/rc.conf wasn't set up properly after my upgrade from a 2.2-GAMMA. I ended up modifying rc.conf manually to set up the networking and such. I can't trace this directly tho since it hasn't been reported widely. > Anyway, my question is: is there a utility to configure the network > settings (such as a netconfig or netcfg - I've already tried these > ones with no luck ...) or I have to configure it by hand, editting > the files??? You can try running /stand/sysinstall, go into post-install, then network interfaces. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major