Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 10:35:26 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Irvine Short <ishort@pcm.co.za> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install fail after getting files, before full config Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960126103243.2507D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3D2F01F364E@pcm.co.za>
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On Thu, 25 Jan 1996, Irvine Short wrote: > When I came in this morning, all the packages bar a couple had been > fetched and the system had started asking me further config questions. > > However, in the middle of the process the X system tried to start and > hung the system during the X -probeonly. Looks like the xf86config script hung. :) If you want to try that again, just run xf86config, that will get you back to configuring X. Everything else should be in sysconfig, which I think you found. > Will I have to go through everything manually? I have manually edited > the /etc/sysconfig file, but the system complains about > demo1.pcm.co.za (hostname I manually put into sysconfig) does not > exist. Does it have a nameserver entry? Is /etc/resolv.conf set up correctly? (ie is there a "nameserver xx.yy.zz.qq" entry in there) > It seems that the NE2000 card is not configured at all. How do I > assign the IP address and the subnet mask to the NE2000? In SCO I > would use netconfig. What is FreeBSD's equivalent? Either do it in sysconfig or you can temporarily get it upusing ifconfig. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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