From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 15 22:53:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A88C37C772 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 22:53:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e6G5rXi09513; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 22:53:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 22:53:33 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: "James A. Mutter" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: network install HOWTO Message-ID: <20000715225333.G25571@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000713031047.Q25571@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from jmutter@colltech.com on Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 10:22:22PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * James A. Mutter [000715 20:22] wrote: > > Great work on the Howto - I've used it to setup a test environment and > so far everything is working well. I recommend it to others who are > looking for a quick start guide to automated network installs of > FreeBSD. > > Now - I've checked through the man pages of the fxp driver but I didn't > find an answer to this. Is there a way to control the NIC settings from > FreeBSD? Specifically, I'd like to switch the boot setting on the NIC > from "Network" to "Local" after the install is completed. Is this > possible without human intervention? Is there a plan for this > functionality? If not I can try write something myself. Most machines will boot up with the network card as a last option which is handy if the install goes smoothly because at next boot it will hit the harddrive instead. Just change the BIOS boot order and you should be fine. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message