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Subject: installing booteasy AFTER???
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Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 08:32:15 -0500 (EST)
From: mgessner@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>