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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>
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Subject: Re: Installing from 3.4rc2 ISO
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In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9B3B@l04.research.kpn.com>; from Koster, K.J. on Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 03:01:29PM +0100
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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 :-)

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