From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 6 20:00:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA03799 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 May 1996 20:00:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA03794 for ; Mon, 6 May 1996 20:00:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA28637; Mon, 6 May 1996 20:04:38 -0700 Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 20:04:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: jlfox+@pitt.edu cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't get boot disk to ftp rest of FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199605040435.AAA11583@unixs-eval.cis.pitt.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 4 May 1996 jlfox+@pitt.edu wrote: > I'm on Dell Pentium that was able to download boot.flp and > rawrite.exe from you from ftp under dos. Everything goes > well till I kick it to transfer from (tried several sites.) > Suspected DNS problems so used "other" and ftp://163....... > No luck! Setup didn't query for ethernet card info... Is it > smart enough to probe and configure itself? HELP!!! > [I also blew away my boot manager so the machine is dead.] > BTW, I've got 2.5 gigs and 32mb RAM so no problems there. Was your ethernet card detected during the boot sequence? Watch the kernel messages for your driver type. If you don't see it (or it says "not found"), then put -c on the Boot: prompt and configure the proper settings for your card with the proper driver. (use "visual" to see what driver is what) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major