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Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.rccn.net!titan.ci.ua.pt!zeus.ci.ua.pt!cooker From: cooker@ci.ua.pt (Fernando Cozinheiro) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Problems to install FreeBSD using floppies/FTP Date: 10 Aug 1995 14:06:51 GMT Organization: Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Lines: 38 Message-ID: <40d3pr$114@titan.ci.ua.pt> NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.ci.ua.pt X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Dear friends: I'm making my first attempts to install FreeBSD (2.1.0-950726-RELEASE). In order to do this, I've read the INSTALL manual, and I have prepared the BOOT and ROOT floppies in order to boot my system with FreeBSD. I've already partioned the disk (30 MB=/, 300 MB=/usr, 50 MB=swap), reserving some space to DOS. I'm trying to make the installation using FTP protocol, taking a mirror site as reference server. ... but I've some problems, and I've already spent too much time. I think that my PC has problems to communicate using the LAN card (INTERCOM 16CT, NE2000 compatible, 16 bits), because it gives timeout. I've already used hostname and IP addresses for the servers. During this period I make some PINGs from other systems and the PC doesn't respond. I can't understand why this happens, because the Ethernet card (ed1) is detected on the boot phase. I've setup network parameters (hostname, domain, gateway, nameserver, etc.). I've used netmask 255.255.255.0 because my computer is installed on a C class network, and I've used link1 on the Extra Flags, in order to indicate to the system that I'm using a BNC interface to connect to our local network. Are these two fields (netmask and extra flags) correct? I've already tried to install 2.0.5-RELEASE, but the problems remain. Does anyone had this problem? Could someone help me to solve the problem? Thanks in advance. -- Diva Duarte Neves Centro de Informatica * Universidade de Aveiro 3800 AVEIRO * PORTUGAL Phone: +351.34.370345 Fax: +351.34.370214 E-Mail: diva@ci.ua.pt