From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 6 10:24:59 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7F5716A41F for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 10:24:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr11.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr11.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 198C943D45 for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 10:24:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr11.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jA6AOv3a096839; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 11:24:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id F3E00B822; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 11:24:56 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 11:24:56 +0100 From: Roland Smith To: Matthew Smith Message-ID: <20051106102456.GA26939@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Smith , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <436DCB19.2090005@kbc.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <436DCB19.2090005@kbc.net.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS Installation Issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 10:24:59 -0000 --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 07:51:29PM +1030, Matthew Smith wrote: > Hi >=20 > Having used AIX for about twenty years and Linux for nearly ten, I have > decided to start exploring the possibilities of FreeBSD and have just > downloaded the ISOs for Version 6/i386. >=20 > I have attempted to do an install from CD, but am getting failures on > quite a few files - possibly because I only had yucky CDRWs to put my > ISOs on and the CD drive in the machine is quite old. So, I decided to > copy the CD to a directory on another machine, make an NFS share (which > works - I checked it from yet another machine), and just use the CD to bo= ot. >=20 > My problem is that when I select the installation source, Ethernet is > not amongst the options (just SLIP, PPP and something else weird). That "something weird" could well be the ethernet card. unlike Linux, the ethernet devices are not all named "ethX', but are named after the driver. So it could be e.g. sk0, xl0, dc0, de0, fxp0, vr0 etc. > I assume that there's a kernel module not loaded, so after looking > further through the documentation, I found that I should be able to put > a line in /boot/defaults/loader.conf. Since the installation so far was > actually bootable (that's one up on Linux!), I did this. All this did > for me was to generate a warning that the module was already loaded. Then try to use the "something weird" as the ethernet device. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDbdn4EnfvsMMhpyURAlD6AJ9cVO34QJBNiNj2F3xqyxDRswbF/gCfZcF1 /Gdh8c3EkHF2mBv+Ua3UzjQ= =qWrK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e--