Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 08:32:15 -0500 (EST) From: mgessner@aristar.com To: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: installing booteasy AFTER??? Message-ID: <199612031332.IAA02939@phoenix.aristar.com>
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Hi, all, I've installed FreeBSD 2.1.5 on a customer's machine. It was REALLY difficult since I could NOT get the FTP working to save my life! So could someone answer some questions: a) I know my ethernet card works OK, but when I go to set up FTP as my medium, I have no end of problems. Mostly, after I type in the network parameters (hostname, IP addresses, etc), it tells me it can't get bin, docs, manpages, (and something else). FWIW, here's what I told it: Hostname: wang.aristar.com Domain: aristar.com Gateway: 10.0.0.1 Nameserver: 10.0.0.1 IP address: 10.0.0.64 (I have other machines on this network) Network mask: 255.255.255.0 (auto generated) On my FTP host, I had tried two things: 1) On my source machine, I mounted /dev/cd0a as /usr/ftp/FreeBSD/2.1.5-RELEASE, and when I was prompted to tell it where to login via ftp I told it a) ftp://10.0.0.1/FreeBSD -- which didn't work b) ftp://10.0.0.1/FreeBSD/2.1.5-RELEASE -- also didn't work Anonymous FTP *IS* working, since I used it before to install to another machine, using a) above, I think. 2) I'd also followed the instructions in Lehey's book _The_Complete_FreeBSD_ regarding copying the distributions to a location in /usr/ftp and those didn't work EITHER. Also, the instructions in sysinstall look very much like Lehey's (although I didn't try them verbatim). What am I doing wrong here? I'm the first to admit I know enough to be dangerous with some parts of this, but I've been doing Unix work for several years now, and only recently started to do all this sysadmin work. I just don't know a lot about the inner workings of routers and gateways at this point, and work keeps me too busy to read up on all of it. b) I installed the kernel on wd1a, as wd0 has DOS on it and I don't have permission yet to kill it (when I do, I'll just make it a /home partition probably). How can I install booteasy on to the boot sector of the first drive (now C:)? i.e. what is the command line that sysinstall uses to do that -or- how can I cause it to happen from inside sysinstall. The sysinstall help file (the one that gives all the commands that you can issue from the command line like: sysinstall var=... command...) doesn't seem to me to indicate how to do this. I don't have a terrible amount of time invested in this, so if I *had* to do this all over again, I could. (Although, at this moment, the thought doesn't get me all warm and fuzzy!) Thanks for reading this. I'll be looking forward to replies. Bye! Matt Gessner, <mgessner@aristar.com>
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