From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 11:21:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA23018 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 11:21:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts9-line6.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.87]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA23013 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 11:21:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA00806; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 11:19:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 11:19:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Brian Matsik cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Dynamic IP Addressing In-Reply-To: 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 Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Brian Matsik wrote: > I am trying to install FreeBSD over my Intel EtherExpress card since we > have a T1 net connection. I am having problems getting the system to > install because we use dynamic IP addressing on all of our machines. > The NT servers will lease an IP address to us for 1 to 2 weeks and then > we are re-assigned an IP address. Is there a way that I can get this > when installing FreeBSD using the FTP option (through a firewall)? Ugly ugly ugly :( Install doesn't support DHCP, so you'll need to suck up an IP for the install. I ddon't know if sysinstall supports proxy. It would be better to do a DOS install or make a local FTP site and ftp from that. > If this is not possible then I would like to just install the app from > my HD. I am using the install instructions that states to copy the > directories to my C:\ drive and install from that DOS location. When I > try to install I need to format my C:\ drive, but I have 2 SCSI hard > drives and I would like to install to the second drive since it is much > larger. If I do install to the C:\ drive will the flat FreeBSD > directory be wiped out? Huh? You'll copy the distribution files to your DOS slice in c:\freebsd. If you don't have one, pick one disk, make like a 200mb DOS primary partition, use that for the install, then just delete that slice and add the disk like you are adding a new disk to the system (which isn't easy, I hate to say). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major