From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 21 23:42:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA18331 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 23:42:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts10-line1.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.99]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA18274 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 23:42:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00332; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 23:42:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 23:42:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Kirk Lapray and Scott Hunt cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation Problems over weird EtherNET connection In-Reply-To: <324362EC.2FF5@cougarnet.byu.edu> 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 Fri, 20 Sep 1996, Kirk Lapray and Scott Hunt wrote: > We recently (about 25 minutes ago) tried to set up FreeBSD through an > FTP install on a Pentium-Pro 200Mhz with 64MB of RAM. We were actually > quite impressed by the installation program which auto detected the SVGA > card, SCSI adapter and EtherNET card. However, after filling in the > EtherNet connection info, it bombed out on us (both in active and > passive modes) with an Error 11: "I'm Dead". That is not nice. Jump over to the ALT-F2 debug screen and see if there is any additional information there. Usually, sig11's indicate hardware problems, but concidering your network, it may just be a misconfiguration and a bug handling the error. > The connection is to a DHCP server, You will need to 'borrow' an IP address for the duration of the install. The install program (and FreeBSD in general) doesn't understand DHCP or BOOTP at the moment. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major