Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 12:59:22 -0800 (PST) From: "Sean O'Casey Hoss" <ocasey@UGAstro.Berkeley.EDU> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: freeBSD sysinstall Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.960202154039.8948A-100000@ttauri>
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SysAdmin:
I am a PC user and am interested in running FreeBSD on my 486 VLB
system. The PC hardware is as follows: AMD 486DX2 80 MHz processor,
Western Digital 325 MB IDE hard drive on a VLB controller, Conner 1.08 GB
Fast SCSI-II hard drive on an Adaptec 1542CP controller, 3.5 and 5.25
floppies run on the Adaptec controller, Zoltrix 14.4 modem connected to
the VLB I/O card with 16550 UART chips, a serial mouse, a 1MB VRAM ISA
video card running a 15" SVGA monitor, and a Colorado 250 MB tape backup
run off the Adaptec Controller.
I want to leave my IDE hard drive as the boot drive for now, but
will eventually migrate my DOS software to the SCSI drive, remove the IDE
drive, and I may even remove DOS from this machine altogether. So I
partitioned the SCSI drive with a 384 MB DOS partition and made it
active. I disabled the Adaptec controller's BIOS and control the SCSI
drive with drivers provided by Adaptec. I downloaded the 'boot.flp'
image and installed it onto a 3.5" floppy with rawrite.exe. I rebooted
the machine and proceeded with the Novice installation.
I chose to install release 2.1 on the SCSI drive, set the media
as FTP (primary site), left the ftp login as 'ftp' and 'anonymous',
created a FreeBSD partition on the 644MB of space left on the drive, and
let the Disk Label Editor use the default 'A' selection. I connected to
my host provider (UC Berkeley's shared high speed terminal service) and
switched back to tty1. The sysinstall program responded with "Cannot
resolve hostname 'ftp.freebsd.org'! Are you sure that your name server,
gateway and network interface are configured?" I tried several options
on settings before giving up on the attempt for that night.
The first problem I discovered was that my C drive would not boot.
I installed a system disk and found that the primary DOS partition had
been made inactive (probably from requesting the "booteasy" boot
manager.) I used fdisk to make it active again and it boots fine now.
Why do I get the message "Cannot resolve hostname
'ftp.freebsd.org'!" ? I found that manual connection to your ftp site
prefers the login parameters of 'anonymous' and my email
'ocasey@ttauri.UGAstro.Berkeley.EDU' (case sensitive) so I reset the
Options Editor to reflect this. I have set the network configuration
parameters of hostname, Domain name, Gateway, Name server, and IP address
to ocasey.hip.berkeley.edu and the IP numbers given to me by the campus
sysadmin. When this did not work, I tried replacing hostname with
'ftp.freebsd.org'. This did not work either.
How much manual negotiation should be performed when establishing
the connection before returning to tty1? I have tried several options
including connecting to the campus terminal server, connecting and
negotiating the ppp account (userid and pword), and ignoring ppp but
connecting to my Astronomy account and starting an ftp connection. I
always get the same error message that 'ftp.freebsd.org' cannot be
resolved.
When the sysintall program terminates, I can see a screen of DEBUG
comments. They read 'Generating /etc/fstab file', 'Init routine called
for network device cuaa1', and 'Shutdown called for network device cuaa1'.
I would appreciate any assistance you can offer.
Sincerely,
Sean O'Casey Hoss
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