From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 12 16:46:09 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAA06000 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Feb 1995 16:46:09 -0800 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA05994 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 1995 16:46:07 -0800 Received: (from gibbs@localhost) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) id QAA06092; Sun, 12 Feb 1995 16:45:52 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Message-Id: <199502130045.QAA06092@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> Subject: Re: FrrrBSD 2.0 Installation over FTPu To: rbose@uclink.berkeley.edu (Rajen Bose) Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 16:45:52 -0800 (PST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Rajen Bose" at Feb 10, 95 04:01:28 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2142 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > To Whom This May Concern: > > I'm a web and gopher administrator for Residential Computing at UC > Berkeley. I was originally running the WWW server on a Windows NT 3.1 > machine, but I didn't like the EMWAC server (the only one made for NT), > so I decided to switch to a UN*X operating system that could run NCSA's > httpd. I chose FreeBSD since I heard that it was a stable and well > supported OS. So, for the past three weeks, I've tried to install > FreeBSD on my IBM - a 25MHz 486sx with 24MB of memory, a 3COM 3c509 TP > ethernet card set to irq 10 and 0x300, and an IDE CD-ROM drive. Since I > can't install via CD-ROM (since IDE CD-ROMs are not supported), I decided > to try to install using FTP. I've tried to install the 2.0 release, the > jan 25 (?) snapshot, the 2/2 snapshot, and the 2/10 snapshot. None of > them work. I was finally able to create proper boot and cpio disks and > format the drives, but I can't FTP the binaries from ftp.freebsd.org. > Frankly, after 3 weeks of trying to install it, I'm sick of FreeBSD. > I've e-mailed questions@freebsd, pst@freebsd, and paul@freebsd, and > nobody knew what to do. I'm almost willing to fly somebody to Berkeley > so I can actually witness this installation (almost). Paul T. did > mention that your 3COM drivers were the flakeiest of all your ethernet > drivers. Will it be fixed anytime soon, or should I just switch to > another OS? Your advice would be helpful. > > > Raj Raj, it sounds like you did not specify "link2" as an option to the ifconfig line in /etc/hostname.ep0. I know that the computer center's uses 3c509s not 3c609Bs, which should work fine with this flag. The flag, BTW, tells the adaptor to use the 10base-T port. Why this might be necessary with a non-combo card, I don't know. I'm surprised that this is the first I've heard of this. You know I run FreeBSD, and I'm in your back yard! :-) -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================