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Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 21:44:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: boot up failure and dynamic ip
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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  
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