From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 4 15:34:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA06514 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 15:34:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from maila.telia.com (root@maila.telia.com [194.236.189.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA06498 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 15:34:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from girgen@partitur.se) Received: from d1o62.telia.com (root@d1o62.telia.com [195.198.198.241]) by maila.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA05573; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 00:34:23 +0100 (MET) Received: from partitur.se (t8o62p36.telia.com [195.198.199.216]) by d1o62.telia.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA21873; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 00:34:22 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <34B01C6C.A3DE0B74@partitur.se> Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 00:34:04 +0100 From: Palle Girgensohn Organization: Partitur X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sweettr2@interaccess.net CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP!!!!!! References: <34B00472.224A@interaccess.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello Andrew, What IP address are you feeding sysinstall? Have you tried 10.0.0.1? It's a private address (actually an address of a private A-net) that you can use if you're not connected to the Internet (or use PPP etc to connect). Maybe sysinstall checks that the IP# is OK? /palle Andrew and Tonya wrote: > > My name is Andrew, and I am trying to install FreeBsd 2.2.2 stable on a > 486 33Mhz system. It has a network card and a scsi bus system. The > problem I am having is configuring Freebsd to access the ethernet card. > It does'nt appear to have a problem with locating the card installed > with the proper addr/io/irq settings. But I cannot proceed through the > CONFIG-NETWORKING-INTERFACES section of the /stand/sysinstall program. > It persistently tells me that my IP address is incorrect. What am i > doing wrong, or where can I simply add the IP of my choice in a config > file and just get it over with once and for all!!!! > > Also, I am trying to install a second scsi disk. I cannot find any info > in the handbook on how to format the disk with freebsd and then mount > it..... I'm obviously no UNIX guru. But I have had some sysadmin > experience on HPs. But that doesn't seem to help here. Anyway, thankyou > very much for your time. > > Lost in FreeBSD, > > Andrew Reed