From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 18 18:35:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA28991 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 18:35:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line2.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA28986 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 18:35:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA01454; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 18:35:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 18:35:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Swee-Chuan Khoo cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: missing data in /etc/rc.conf In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Swee-Chuan Khoo wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Doug White wrote: > > > i find out that when we do installation over network, > > > the /etc/rc.conf file is not configured and i will have to > > > configure it after rebooting. It is different from 2.1, why > > > remove this feature? > > > > When I tried 2.2.2 last week, it appeared to configure up OK, so I don't > > quite know what you're getting at. > > well, i did a ftp install from my own mirror site on another un*x > machine 3 times and each time when the installation is done, i have > to edit /etc/rc.conf file to enter the hostname, ip address, default > router and such. Hm, it worked OK earlier this week. Are you sure you're exiting the post-install menu and 'exit install'ing before rebooting? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo