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Date:      Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:55:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        John Williams <jwilliams@mail.jhubc.infn.it>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 2.1 and sysinstall
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960728165135.226O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <31EF76DB.651F@mail.jhubc.infn.it>

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On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, John Williams wrote:

> I installed FreeBSD 2.1 from a Mitsumi 2x-speed ISA CD drive, and 
> sysinstall worked fine.  Anytime I use the boot floppy to start FreeBSD, 
> sysinstall finds the CD drive.
> 
> However, when running sysinstall from /stand/sysinstall it does not find 
> the CD drive.  The drive is mountable and readable from the command 
> line.  I have tried sysinstall with the drive mounted and unmounted.
> 
> Sysinstall also refuses to run "Add Network interfaces" to configure a 
> ethernet card.

Once the system is up, you don't need sysinstall anymore, since you can do
everything it does.  

If you've compiled your own kernel, add the driver for the Ethernet card
to your kernel if you haven't already, rebuild, reinstall.

Then edit /etc/sysconfig, find the ifconfig section, and add a
ifconfig_xxx line like the ones given.  For instance, this is the ifconfig
line for my NE2000:

ifconfig_ed0="inet 128.223.186.250 netmask 255.255.254.0"

Obviously this will vary for your setup.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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