From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Oct 2 14:08:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA23314 for mobile-outgoing; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 14:08:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avalon.whirlygig.co.uk (avalon.whirlygig.co.uk [195.152.5.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA23271 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 14:07:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (prt@localhost) by avalon.whirlygig.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA13294; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:12:29 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:12:28 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Thornton X-Sender: prt@avalon.whirlygig.co.uk To: User Gp cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing from desktop to laptop In-Reply-To: <199710022025.QAA08117@tower.my.domain> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, User Gp wrote: > 1. I choose install over NFS. > 2. NFS file specification for remote is: tower.my.domain:/cdrom This will almost certainly go wrong, because you don't have an /etc/hosts file in the laptop at this stage - use '10.0.0.2:/cdrom'. The laptop doesn't know who tower.my.domain is at this point, and has no way of finding out so you probably get errors like 'cannot resolve tower.my.domain or invalid hostname' (I can't remember what the actual displayed error is...) > 3. I choose PLIP using laplink cable. > 4. I get stumped at the Network Configuration part. I have tried al sorts of > combinations invlolving tower.my.domain, laptop.my.domain, 10.0.0.2, 10.0.0.1, > and even 127.0.0.1. Can someone tell me the appropriate way to fill these in? > > a. Host: laptop > b. Domain: my.domain > c. Gateway: 10.0.0.2 > d. Name Server: <* see below> > e. IP address: 10.0.0.3 > f. Netmask: 255.255.255.0 > g. Options to ifconfig. That should work - I haven't had any first hand experience of using the parallel port for IP, so the above is a bit generalised. * Name server: If you run BIND on tower (ie: it runs named - the name server) you can put 10.0.0.2 in here. If not, leave it blank but you will need to put hosts in /etc/hosts on laptop before you can refer to things by name. Hope that makes sense! Hope this helps, -- Paul -= Paul Thornton, 2 Durnford Way, Cambridge, CB4 2DP, UK. +44 1223 575384 =-