Date: 24 Jan 2001 12:53:15 +0000 From: Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installing FreeBSD from PCMCIA device Message-ID: <m3ofwxp0w4.fsf@zaphod.realtime.co.uk>
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Hi all, I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.2 to my laptop. I am using a 3Com 3CCFE575CT PCMCIA network card to do this install. I am having no joy :( I have also tried using the cdrom drive that is supplied with the laptop with the same result. The cdrom drive is also PCMCIA. The laptop is a Sony vaio PCG505. Is what I am trying to do even possible? More detail below : When I boot from the floppy disks, I am asked if I wish to use pccards for the installation. I say yes. It then asks me for a Memory address and I select default. It then asks me for an IRQ and I selected 10. It then says last chance to swap boot media for install media if I need it. I select ok, and it probes devices. The other path I tried was to boot off of the CD in the pcmcia CDROM drive. The boot process goes fine, but then when I try and select the CDROM drive as my install media, it says no cdrom drives found. If I then Alt-F2, I see a message saying: DEBUG: ioctl(3, TIOCCONS, NULL) = 0 (success) poccard: card inserted, slot 0 I then go into options and set DHCP to yes (default is no) I then tried to select 6 NFS as my media type under the options menu. It asks me for the full NFS specification for the remote host. I enter machinename:/mnt/cdrom It then asks for Network interface information and presents me with 3 options. lp0 sl0 ppp0 I don't see a network card as an option there. If I remove and re-insert the card, still no joy. Any assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, -- - Wayne Pascoe E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 Mobile: +44 (0) 788 431 1675 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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