From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 17 13:40: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cornell.edu (cornell.edu [132.236.56.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 334B015202 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 13:39:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mlb27@cornell.edu) Received: from cornell.edu (ith3-1b6.twcny.rr.com [24.92.234.182]) by cornell.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA22551; Mon, 17 May 1999 16:39:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <37407EA2.288848AF@cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 16:40:02 -0400 From: Matthew Botos X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: ftp, dos install problems References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: > . Double-check the Ethernet card IRQ; it will revert to a 1/sec polled > mode if the interrupt is wrong. > This, along with the fact that pnp mode was still enabled on the card, was the culprit. The DOS install ate it on account of a problem with the install program (3.1-R) not finding the directories unless they were on the root of the DOS partition. Thanks to those who helped me out with this; my middle-of-the-night decision to install FreeBSD has now successfully panned out. Matthew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message