From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 28 16:55:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA18481 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:55:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA18474 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:55:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA00347; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:55:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:55:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: John Williams cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 and sysinstall In-Reply-To: <31EF76DB.651F@mail.jhubc.infn.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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