Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 21:46:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: User Gp <gp@tower.my.domain> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing from Desktop to Laptop Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971002214150.26112E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199709302205.SAA26227@tower.my.domain>
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I'm maintaining the xpost to -mobile if anyone over there is interested. Otherwise speak up and it'll be discontinued. On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, User Gp wrote: > I apologize for this post. I know this stuff has been discussed before. > Somehow, I'm afraid I'm too dense to get it. Apparently I need someone > to hold my hand through this process. OK, I think I know where you're going wrong here. > /etc/hosts > > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain > # > # Imaginary network. Hopefully soon to be real. > 10.0.0.2 tower.my.domain tower > 10.0.0.3 laptop.my.domain laptop > # > # OK, this is important for below. > /etc/rc.conf Checks out, no problems. > netstat -rn Looks OK. > ifconfig -a Ditto. > I boot with PAO-2.2-whatever. There's no indication of trouble with my > setting up of slices etc. I do novice installation and: > > 1. Choose "Install over NFS" > 2. Directory for distribution files = "tower.my.domain:/cdrom". > 3. Choose PLIP using laplink cable. > 4. Host = laptop.my.domain > 5. Domain sets itself to my.domain > 6. Gateway = 10.0.0.2 > 7. Nameserver I leave blank-- don't know what to put there. > 8. Ditto for IP address. > 9. In options to ifconfig I put 10.0.0.2 because instructions say I should put > the > remote address there. > 10. Say OK Your problems are as follows: 1. In Step #2 you use a hostname, but in #7 you leave nameserver blank. Your laptop has no way of knowing who ``tower.my.domain'' is and has no way of finding out. Solution: run named on your tower and set up a primary domain for your 10.x.x.x net. This way the laptop can grab the name for tower. OR, give the IP address for the remote host, i.e. `10.0.0.2:/cdrom'. The named solution is probably the better way to go. 2. In step #8 you leave the IP address for the local machine blank. You know this -- it's 10.0.0.3, aka laptop.my.domain. To ifconfig properly the IP address is _required_. Solution: Punch in 10.0.0.3 for the IP address. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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