From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 1 19:46:11 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA12463 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Jul 1995 19:46:11 -0700 Received: from localhost.clark.net (critter.clark.net [168.143.4.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA12457 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 1995 19:46:07 -0700 Received: (from rjs@localhost) by localhost.clark.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id WAA00642; Sat, 1 Jul 1995 22:48:12 GMT Date: Sat, 1 Jul 1995 22:22:00 +0000 From: Ron Steele Subject: Manual Install? To: question freebsd Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have about dispared trying to install 0622 SNAP via the menus and am wondering if there is a way to do it manually. I am trying to ftp the distribution from a local 2.0R machine. I am consistanly told the ftp has timed out (which happens in a fraction of a second) or that my enet interface (novell NE2000) can not be configured. On any given boot, either error can occur. When I f4 to get to a shell I can ifconfig the interface and ping the server with no problems. Then I find that there is no place to FTP to, as the installation disk is shown a mounted on a directory that apparently does not exist (/mnt and /mnt/usr)! Is this related to the message about the disk being read-only? I have not found a way to change this. Particulars: 2.0R host is dial-up ppp'ed to a Internet provider. The enet card it is is used only for this kind of thing and to transfer data from a note book. There is no name server running. No gateways. The only valid IP address I have is for the ppp connection to the provider, so I am forced to use a made-up one on the enet. The "new" system is an old 386 box to be used as a "firewall" at my employer's. There is no DOS partion as this thing just sits around and talks to networks all day. The new disk is an IDE with a 59MB /, 39MB swap and 135MB /usr, allocated in that order via the install menus. If anyone can help sort this out, either manually or some clues about how to make the install scripts work I would really appreciate it. It's probably just me, but EVERY time I try to do an install, going back to early 386BSD, it is like a bad trip to the dentist. I keep seeing these testimonials about how easy it is to install wonder if I am cursed. Ron