From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 5 10:57:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA22304 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 10:57:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from redheat.rs.itd.umich.edu (0@redheat.rs.itd.umich.edu [141.211.83.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA22299 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 10:57:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blackjac (lcp-c5-172.mw.highway1.com [24.131.5.172]) by redheat.rs.itd.umich.edu (8.8.5/2.2) with ESMTP id NAA01145 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 13:57:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3410481B.EFFDAD10@mediaone.net> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 1997 13:57:47 -0400 From: Douglas Jacobsen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en]C-MOEMW (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: boot up failure and dynamic ip X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk hello, i recently installed you most current release version of freebsd over the internet (i have a cable modem). i am running it off of a seagate 1 gb scsi hard drive which microsoft used to think was my d drive. when ever i boot up it says that it can't move root to something or other and restarts itself in 15 secs. i am using a cyrix 6x86 p166+ processor on a supermicro p5ste motherboard. i have used prev vers of freebsd and the 3.x snapshots and they worked fine. i was wondering if you could help me. as a side note for when it starts working i have a cable modem, but the service does not give me a static ip address, i get a new one every 24 hrs. i am connected to my cable modem with a 3com etherlink iii isa card. i was wondering if i would be able to use my network connection from within freebsd without having to go into windows to check what my current ip address is. and as a further side note, will there be support for fat32 anytime soon? thank you for your help, and for your great operating system doug jacobsen