Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 14:53:02 +0100 From: Geoff Buckingham <geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com> To: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing from 3.4rc2 ISO Message-ID: <20010413145302.A47184@chuggalug.clues.com> In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9B3B@l04.research.kpn.com>; from Koster, K.J. on Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 03:01:29PM %2B0100 References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9B3B@l04.research.kpn.com>
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On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 03:01:29PM +0100, Koster, K.J. wrote: > Dear Geoff, > > > > > I was unable to do a network install with RC2 as I only had > > an fxp card > > and a DE 201 lying around. The fxp seem to have a slight > > variation of... > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=24177 > > > > which I assume is fixed in CURRENT. > > > You have to set the variables explicitly during the installation. Boot from > the floppy, interrupt at the point where the loader threatens to boot the > kernel in 9..8..7.. and type something like: set fxp_iomap=1 (forgot the > exact syntax, and the box is off at the moment). After the install you can > set this in loader.rc. > > The problem is that this issue is limited to lower end Alpha boxes and the > option limits the performance of the fxp card. That's why it's not enabled > by default. > > If course, someone could code it to retry the probe if a bogus MAC address > turns up, but the symptoms (MAC ff:ff:...) cannot be relied upon to be > identical from box to box, so a reprobe would be yucky by design. Effort is > best focused elsewhere. > > In short: set the flag and you can do a network install. > I had understood from my reading of the CVS that this hadn't got back to the RELENG_4 branch yet. I could be wrong. PS obviously this is about 4.3rc2, one day I will learc to tpye :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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