From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 24 6: 2: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from penguin.wise.edt.ericsson.se (penguin-ext.wise.edt.ericsson.se [194.237.142.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F129814D9E for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 06:01:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from epkpart@lmera.lmera.ericsson.se) Received: from mbb5.ericsson.se (mbb5.ericsson.se [136.225.151.210]) by penguin.wise.edt.ericsson.se (8.9.3/8.9.3/WIREfire-1.3) with ESMTP id PAA01453 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:00:49 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lmera (lmera.lmera.ericsson.se [147.214.60.16]) by mbb1.ericsson.se (PMDF V5.2-29 #33627) with SMTP id <0FIK00ND7ETDIM@mbb1.ericsson.se> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:00:49 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from y5m602.lmera.ericsson.se by lmera (5.x/LME-DOM-2.2.3) id AA17299; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:00:48 +0200 Received: from y5m602 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by y5m602.lmera.ericsson.se (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA17894 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:00:47 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:00:46 +0200 From: David Partain Subject: Installing 3.3 on HP Vectra XU 5/90 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <199909241300.PAA17894@y5m602.lmera.ericsson.se> Content-id: <17891.938178046.1@y5m602> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I was recently given some of said machines that were declared useless by the powers that be, which I thought was way cool since I'd just install FreeBSD on them and their lives would thus be prolonged. Unfortunately, that seems not to be trivial. Firstly, the machine has no CD on it, so it's going to be an ftp installation through our ftp proxy (a story in itself). But, I've done that before, so I didn't think that would be a problem. Unfortunately, the kernel booted from floppy doesn't seem to be able to find the ethernet interface. I can't get out! The ethernet interface (which is a PCI integrated ethernet interface) doesn't seem to be recognized by the floppy-based kernel. Is there any reasonable way around this, or am I outta luck? I could always try to put something else (*BSD, RH Linux) on it, but I'd rather use FreeBSD. Any help would be appreciated. With kind regards, -- David Partain David.Partain@ericsson.com Ericsson Radio Systems AB Tel: +46 13 28 41 44 Research and Innovation Fax: +46 13 28 75 67 P.O. Box 1248 http://www.lmera.ericsson.se/~epkpart SE-581 12 Link=F6ping, Sweden ERA/LVA/RN To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message