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From: gherrity@io.nosc.mil (Mike Gherrity)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Configuring no network
Date: 18 Sep 1995 09:28:21 GMT
Organization: NRaD, San Diego
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I just installed FreeBSD 2.0.5 on my pc at home. I have no network at home:
No network card, no NFS. During the installation process, I didn't come
across anything that asked me for a machine name, so I went to the
"Network Services Menu" (even though I have no network), and came across
a "Network Configuration" menu which asked me for a machine name. I
dutifully put in the name 'hal'. However, there were places for Domain,
Gateway, IP address, ... which I left blank since I have no network (in
another attempt at installation I used hal.mjg.org, but that didn't seem
to have any different results).
I now get lots of errors when I boot FreeBSD, like
ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCGIFFLAGS): no such interface
hal: bad value
(starting the sendmail daemon): My host name (hal) does not seem to
exist!: Connection refused
sendmail[90]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): My host name (hal) does not seem to
exist!: Connection refused
mail doesn't work and ppp quits whenever there is about 5 minutes of inactivity
(it says write: no such process).
Looking at the newsgroup archives, I found one message where the advice was
to add the host name to the /etc/hosts file. I did this by removing the line
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain
and adding the line
10.0.0.0 hal
This seemed to get sendmail working, but then xinit would hang, so I couldn't
start XFree86. I still got the ifconfig message and the bad value message,
but now a new error
routed bind: Can't assign requested address
I have also tried variations in the hostname line of the /etc/sysconfig file,
but no luck.
Any words of wisdom?
mike
gherrity@nosc.mil