From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 22 16:32:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA27385 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:32:16 -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 QAA27372 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:32:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA00195; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:35:29 -0700 Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:35:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Balaji Srinivasan cc: freebsd-install@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation problems In-Reply-To: <199604210209.VAA16042@meyer.eecs.ukans.edu.eecs.ukans.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, 20 Apr 1996, Balaji Srinivasan wrote: > Hi there ppl, > I am posting here for the first time. (I just joined the list , so forgive > me if this is an old problem...) > > Well I cant seem to be able to install freebsd.. Here is what i went > through... > > First I tried installing over ftp (from freebsd.org and other sites too) > It started hanging when it was trying to log in to ftp.freebsd.org (and other > sites) > > Then I tried using NFS. I downloaded the 2.1.0-RELEASE to a local > network disk and tried . It gives the message hostname:not found > and then hangs when it tries to mount the remote disk (I know for > sure that the disk is being exported to my workstation) This sounds like a misconfiguration of the network card. Are you sure it's IRQ and base address are available? Did you configure it with -c on the boot: prompt before starting out? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major