From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 11 0: 9:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (fedde.littleton.co.us [216.17.174.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A1C937B7FD for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 00:09:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e4B79SD00138; Thu, 11 May 2000 01:09:28 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200005110709.e4B79SD00138@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Harry Putnam Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install network setup In-Reply-To: From: Chris Fedde Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 01:09:28 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10 May 2000 22:20:41 -0700 Harry Putnam wrote: +------------------ | Trying BSD for the first time in a year or so, a fresh install of | release 4. I've attempted a network ftp install but can't get the | nertwork setup with the tools provided at install. | | Are there other tools, maybe in "packages" directory that will make | this a little easier? So far I can't get to packages by ftp anyway, | but am currently downloading many of them with linux. +------------------ Durring the install there is a "emergency holographic shell" available on one of the other virtual consoles. Probaly under the F3 key. From there you can run ifconfig -a to see what the installer has done to your interfaces. Moving files between FreeBSD and say Linux or Win98 can be done via the floppy using the mtools from the ports collection, or by simply mounting a msdos file system under any os and copying them to that partition. Don't worry `bout both nics appearing on the same IRQ that's normal for PCI. You will need to know which one is the one that points to the internet though. looking at the manual pages for the dc and ed devices could help chris -- Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message