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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ogicse!psgrain!ee.und.ac.za!hippo.ru.ac.za!ccml From: ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za (Mike Lawrie) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Installation cannot work? Message-ID: <CD3D5p.6LI@hippo.ru.ac.za> Date: 9 Sep 93 14:49:00 GMT Article-I.D.: hippo.CD3D5p.6LI References: <CD0w6v.3H@hippo.ru.ac.za> <26kvh7$jh4@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa Lines: 26 In <26kvh7$jh4@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >In article <CD0w6v.3H@hippo.ru.ac.za>, Mike Lawrie <ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za> wrote: >>Someone please publish the trick that is needed to install FreeBSD :-( >> >>I've got past the cpio-floppy install, and can boot off the hard disk >>(SCSI). The probing does not recognise my ethernet card >>(WD8003.something that works fine with 386bsd), and complains about a >>device "ed0" whatever that might be. Hence I cannot install via the >>ethernet as I cannot ifconfig my ethernet card. >Send mail to freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com. The author >of the ed0 driver is on that list, and it's probably a configuration >problem where the ed driver assumes a certain setup that you don't have. The trick is to set the WD8003EP card to use irq 5, i/o 280, iomem d800. Thanks to those who helped me. It is now described in a newly released install_notes.001.gz file on your favourite ftp archive. Mike -- Mike Lawrie <ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za> Director, Computing Services ph +27 461 318279/80 Rhodes University, Drostdy Rd fx +27 461 25049 Grahamstown 6140, South Africa