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From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Subject: Re: 2.1.5R PANIC on AHA2742AT
To: mikebo@tellabs.com
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 22:30:58 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, mikebo@freefall.freebsd.org, mrm@mole.mole.org,
        bugs@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199608071713.MAA21702@sunc210.tellabs.com> from "mikebo@tellabs.com" at Aug 7, 96 12:13:45 pm
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As mikebo@tellabs.com wrote...

> Jordan wrote:
> > 
> > > The ethernet configuration screen reads:
> > > Fatal signal 11 caught! I'm dead...
> > > 
> > > The last line of my debug screen reads:
> > > DEBUG: Init routine called for network device ed0.
> > 
> > Did you not enter the name of a name server?

FWIW: I have installed multiple systems with 2.1R and 2.0.5.R
in this fashion and on a similar (no DNS) home network. Haven't 
tried 2.1.5R admittedly.

> No... This is my home setup, and the install target is my main (of two)
> machines. The second machine is primarily my kid's game machine. It's my
> UNIX play-toy second, so they are hardly ever running UNIX simultaneously.
> 
> Is a nameserver mandatory? If so, the field editing probably shouldn't
> have let me proceed without entering a value (or offering a default
> value like "NO").
> 
> Anyway, I'm trying to do a load via NFS, and spec'ed the server like so:
> 198.102.156.5:/usr/FreeBSD. It shouldn't need a nameserver. What to do?

See remark above

Wilko
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