Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 19:09:48 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD current users) Subject: Re: Installation: still not perfect Message-ID: <4929.849755388@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Dec 1996 18:47:45 %2B0100." <199612041747.SAA19269@freebie.lemis.de>
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> 3Com 3C585C). It also sported a sticker proclaiming "Designed for > Microsoft Windows 95%", which I found convenient to put on my > waste paper basket. God, what a market opportunity. Windows95 stickers for trash cans. I like it. Maybe you could even put "Internet Ready" somewhere on the sticker and go for full coverage. > support. If this is the case, it would be nice (a) for the driver > to notice the fact and not pretend that everything's working, and > (b) to have a boot diskette which does support notebooks. That's called the PAO floppy and something the BSD Nomads currently provide. Ask Nate about the status of this support in -current; I know he's been liasing with the Nomads. This was also described somewhere in one of our HTML pages but darned if I can find it now. This would be a good one for the FAQ if that document weren't dead. > 4. So, I thought, let's try using lp0 as the interface. Doesn't > work: it looks as if the setup scripts aren't expecting a > point-to-point connection, and they don't specify the address of > the other end of the link, so ifconfig fails. Is there a trick > here? It's in the "extra args to ifconfig" area and if you'd RTFM'd (hit F1 or ?) you'd have seen: The ``Extra options to ifconfig'' is kind of special (read: a hack :-). You can use it for specifying the foreign side of a PLIP or SLIP line (simply type the foreign address in) as well as selecting a given "link" on an ethernet card that has more than one (e.g. AUI, 10BT, ... > it shows that it succeeded in mounting the disks (I tried both > MS-DOG and ufs formats) on /dist, and then went looking for > /dist/bin/bin.tgz and /dist/bin/bin.inf, which it didn't find. It needs either one, not both. This is all described now in the ABOUT.TXT file which you will find in the 2.1.6 release. I saw the need for describing the distribution layout, so I did. > There's nothing in any documentation I know about which even > mentions these files. See above. :-) Jordan
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