From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 24 10:45:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA26329 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 10:45:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from blondie.ottawa.cc (blondie.ottawa.cc [209.112.49.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA26324 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 10:45:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mat@blondie.ottawa.cc) Received: from localhost (mat@localhost) by blondie.ottawa.cc (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA17619 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 13:47:12 GMT (envelope-from mat@blondie.ottawa.cc) Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 13:47:11 +0000 (GMT) From: User MAT To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: How To Fixup A New Install -- Trivial Importance Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I remember seeing some messages about the boot loader but the didn't seem to apply here. Preamble: We just got a cable modem in my apartment and I convinced my roomate to free up a drive and install FreeBSD 3.0-REALEASE. We natd my machine and installed through it. I was very impressed that this worked so easily (you have to run the Windows Cable-Modem software first to get the IP/gateway/DNS via DHCP, once you have theses values, the cable-modem doesn't care). Three Questions : 1: He installed on a second drive. When he boots he gets F1: ??? (or something like this) but no indication of what key to push to get to drive 2. (On the secondary IDE). Mine says F3: Disk 2 (ok, maybe not exactly and my drives on channel one). Can this be fixed/changed? 2: Also his wont boot unless you explicitly type 1:wd(2,a)kernel I was under the impression that it stored this information. 3: Final question about my machine, Why does xfree86 keep disapearing from my /var/db/pkg directory. This stops me from doing package install from /stand/sysintall. All in all, 3.0 works great (including x) and is a dream to install over a cable modem (Roger@home if you want to know). Mat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message