Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 21:09:16 +0900 From: Shen Jing <sj@china.pages.com.cn> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: A newbie's question Message-ID: <355D81EC.444@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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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