From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 10 21:43:12 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF03E1065671 for ; Sat, 10 May 2008 21:43:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from smtp.utwente.nl (unknown [IPv6:2001:610:1908:1000:204:23ff:feb5:7e66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E8018FC16 for ; Sat, 10 May 2008 21:43:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from lux.student.utwente.nl (lux.student.utwente.nl [130.89.170.81]) by smtp.utwente.nl (8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m4ALh4uq012736; Sat, 10 May 2008 23:43:05 +0200 From: Pieter de Goeje To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 23:43:01 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <30ddfdae0805100456s40f282c5w1479437513bbd7c3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <30ddfdae0805100456s40f282c5w1479437513bbd7c3@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805102343.02976.pieter@degoeje.nl> X-UTwente-MailScanner-Information: Scanned by MailScanner. Contact servicedesk@icts.utwente.nl for more information. X-UTwente-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UTwente-MailScanner-From: pieter@degoeje.nl X-Spam-Status: No Cc: constantine Subject: Re: Installation with IP alias X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 21:43:13 -0000 On Saturday 10 May 2008, constantine wrote: > Dear FreeBSD Aficionados, > > I am trying to install FreeBSD in my notebook through an external USB > CD-ROM. While the installation manager runs fine, after choosing the > installation media it says it cannot mount /dev/acd0 (which refers to > the notebook's built-in broken cdrom). > What could I do? > > As an alternative I tried installing through FTP. The problem is that > my network configuration has to be as such (with ip aliasing and some > static routes): > defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" > static_routes="beastie puffy" > route_beastie="-net 10.0.0.0/8 10.96.66.254" > route_puffy="-net 10.96.66.253/32 10.96.66.2" > hostname="payaso.costis.name" > ifconfig_rl0="inet 10.96.66.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" > ifconfig_rl0_alias0="inet 192.168.1.36 netmask 255.255.255.0" > > ... and the holographic emergency shell is somewhat hostile to running > ifconfig/route: (command: not found) > > My DNS server is 10.96.66.1 > > > Thank you very much in advance for any insights!... > > Yours, > > Constantine Tsardounis > http://costis.name You could try the livefs CD, which should have everything you need to get the network working. I suppose you could then install from FTP using sysinstall. If that doesn't work you could install FreeBSD on a USB (flash?) disk, boot from it, then basically copy the whole USB disk to the HDD of your laptop, or something like that. Good Luck! Pieter de Goeje