Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 21:44:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Douglas Jacobsen <djacobsen@mediaone.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot up failure and dynamic ip Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970905214416.7395I-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3410481B.EFFDAD10@mediaone.net>
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On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Douglas Jacobsen wrote: > 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. I need to see the exact text of the error message. > 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 Yes; check out the wide-dhcp package in ports/net. 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
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