From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 4 05:51:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9726037B401 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 05:51:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from spf1.us.outblaze.com (205-158-62-158.outblaze.com [205.158.62.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E048343FAF for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 05:51:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paul@qdice.com) Received: (qmail 2115 invoked from network); 4 Apr 2003 13:51:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (205.158.62.146) by spf1.us.outblaze.com with QMQP; 4 Apr 2003 13:51:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 1249 invoked from network); 4 Apr 2003 13:47:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ws4-4.us4.outblaze.com) (205.158.62.105) by 205-158-62-146.outblaze.com with SMTP; 4 Apr 2003 13:47:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 15977 invoked by uid 1001); 4 Apr 2003 13:51:43 -0000 Message-ID: <20030404135143.15976.qmail@qdice.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.41 (Entity 5.404) Received: from [205.148.5.90] by ws4-4.us4.outblaze.com with http for paul@qdice.com; Fri, 04 Apr 2003 21:51:43 +0800 From: "Paul Simon" To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 21:51:43 +0800 X-Originating-Ip: 205.148.5.90 X-Originating-Server: ws4-4.us4.outblaze.com Subject: Newbie install experience X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 13:51:44 -0000 Hi all I was donated an old Dell Optiplex - PentiumI 64MB 2GB. Since I had RH7.1 on a HP PII box and wanted to try something different like Debian, but the installation wasn't clear enough for me to follow. So, I tried FreeBSD. Installing it on the Dell Optiplex was surprisingly smooth. I installed via ftp over ethernet. It was so smooth that I decided to wipe out the RH7.1 on the HP PII box to install FreeBSD. (At the same time, I added a second harddrive!) Well, the install was not so nice: The ethernet card (Netgear FA310-TX) was not recognized. Consequently, I couldn't install over ethernet like a I did for the above. So, I went down the long road of figuring out that you need better than a limited "Easy CD" on windows in order to burn a bootable ISO image on CD - 5 hour tribulation :). I finally used the demo version of NERO to burn it. Yippee for Nero!! I now have FreeBSD 4.8 on two boxes. However, the Netgear FA310-TX is still not recognized. Could somebody point me in a direction to begin to trouble shoot this? Should I be posting to another list? Thanks, Paul -- _______________________________________________ Pida Ya! su eMail Gratis y en Espaņol http://qdice.com Powered by Outblaze