From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 24 4:55:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from simian.realtime.co.uk (simian.realtime.co.uk [194.205.134.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAE6737B69C for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 04:55:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from zaphod.realtime.co.uk (zaphod.realtime.co.uk [194.205.134.208]) by simian.realtime.co.uk (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f0OCtGT24152 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:55:17 GMT Received: from waynep by zaphod.realtime.co.uk with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14LPQJ-0004Gj-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:53:15 +0000 From: Wayne Pascoe To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installing FreeBSD from PCMCIA device Reply-To: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Date: 24 Jan 2001 12:53:15 +0000 Message-ID: Lines: 51 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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