Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 21:05:58 +0900 From: Shen Jing <sj@china.pages.com.cn> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: A newbie's question Message-ID: <355D8126.41F7@china.pages.com.cn>
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Hello :
I am new comer of FreeBSD , I am now trying to install FreeBSD onto my
PC.
My pc is a 4x86 with 12M RAM and a trident 90001 card , a 517M hard
disk ,
also a ethernet card installed .
I boot up from a floopy disk and install from CD .
the following is the install procedure:
1. Use Ms-dos's fdisk to setup a hard disk partrition and install DOS
and
Windows95 on it .
2. Boot up with windows95 and setup network address, test it , all
works
fine.
3. boot from freebsd's boot disk
4. create a freebsd partrition using the disk space left by dos setup
(250M)
5. install FreeBSD with novice installer option and choose a X user
installation.
6. I choose to install a BootManager in order to be able to change my
operation environment easily
7. After all files copyed to hard disk and config as the prompt shows
I config a static IP address to the system .
8. restart the system , PROBLEM come up!
the problems is :
First :
at the bootmanager's prompt F? , I just can choose F2 to boot up
with FreeBSD , it choose F1 to boot Dos , the system hangs .
Second :
when the freebsd boot up , after it config the ed1 ( ethernet card
)
with ifconfig , it shows :
ed1: device time out
and after I login , I test the internet connection using ping ,
if I ping 127.0.0.1 and 202.96.98.26 (my card's ip address) , it
shows
the connection is fine , but if ping some host on our LAN , it always
shows:
the host is down
why ?
The Third problem is :
when I login and set /usr/X11R6/bin into my path ,
I use startx to start X windows , it always tell me can not connect to
server ,and ask me to use (--) to select a server , I do config the
Xfree86 at
the setup procedure and at that time the system show the server start up
successfully , why ?
Thank you very much ! and long for your help.
Jing Shen
Mail to: sj@china.pages.com.cn
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