From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 24 6:31: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC0EB14D07 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 06:30:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id OAA16511; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 14:25:06 +0200 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id PAA25359; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:30:16 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA22542; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:10:45 +0200 (MEST) Received: from alcatel.fr by telss1 (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id PAA24532; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:23:29 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <37EB7AC2.637109E3@alcatel.fr> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:21:06 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot Reply-To: thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr Organization: ALCATEL CIT Nanterre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Partain Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing 3.3 on HP Vectra XU 5/90 References: <199909241300.PAA17894@y5m602.lmera.ericsson.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, can you have a look at the innards of the machine (I've converted here HP P5/75 machines, and they used an AMD PCnet chipset on the PCI, which works with the lnc driver) TfH David Partain wrote: > > 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 Linköping, Sweden ERA/LVA/RN > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message