Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 19:51:29 +1030 From: Matthew Smith <matt@kbc.net.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: NFS Installation Issues Message-ID: <436DCB19.2090005@kbc.net.au>
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Hi 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. 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 boot. My problem is that when I select the installation source, Ethernet is not amongst the options (just SLIP, PPP and something else weird). 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. What am I missing? Nowhere, when booting from the first CD, do I get an opportunity to tell it about my network device, although it will ask for all the usual networking details. I'm sure that there must be something quite simple, but is not obvious from the documentation. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Kadina Business Consultancy, South Australia Work: <http://www.kbc.net.au>; Personal: <http://www.mss.cx>;
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