From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 15 11:43:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA00293 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 11:43:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sol.newera.ab.ca (sol.newera.ab.ca [198.161.82.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA00278 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 11:43:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from olympus. (olympus.newera.ab.ca [198.161.82.144]) by sol.newera.ab.ca (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA00894; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:40:53 GMT Received: by olympus. (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA11974; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 12:40:51 -0600 Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 12:40:51 -0600 (MDT) From: Stephen Mathezer To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5 installation does not work. In-Reply-To: <931.837452781@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I am running a Pentium 60 with 32 MB of RAM, a 1.2 Gig HD > > and 540 MB HD (both on wdc0) and a 3com 3c509 ISA Ethernet card (ep0). > ^^^^^^^^^^ > > Sigh.. Yes, it looks like we managed to break support for this card > at the last moment for some people (see the KNOWNBUG.TXT file at the > root of the 2.1.5 release directory). I'm not sure what to suggest > except to say that if you can locate a spare ethernet card just for > installation, you can apply the patch in KNOWNBUG.TXT and get your > card working again post-installation. > > Jordan > Can anybody make a 'fixed' boot.flp available? That would make it much easier to get 2.1.5 installed and then building a new kernel is easy enough. -Steve