Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:21:06 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr> To: David Partain <David.Partain@ericsson.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing 3.3 on HP Vectra XU 5/90 Message-ID: <37EB7AC2.637109E3@alcatel.fr> References: <199909241300.PAA17894@y5m602.lmera.ericsson.se>
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Hello, can you have a look at the innards of the machine (I've converted here HP P5/75 machines, and they used an AMD PCnet chipset on the PCI, which works with the lnc driver) TfH David Partain wrote: > > Hi, > > I was recently given some of said machines that were declared > useless by the powers that be, which I thought was way cool > since I'd just install FreeBSD on them and their lives would > thus be prolonged. Unfortunately, that seems not to be > trivial. Firstly, the machine has no CD on it, so it's going to > be an ftp installation through our ftp proxy (a story in > itself). But, I've done that before, so I didn't think that > would be a problem. > > Unfortunately, the kernel booted from floppy doesn't seem to be > able to find the ethernet interface. I can't get out! The > ethernet interface (which is a PCI integrated ethernet > interface) doesn't seem to be recognized by the floppy-based > kernel. Is there any reasonable way around this, or am I outta > luck? I could always try to put something else (*BSD, RH Linux) > on it, but I'd rather use FreeBSD. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > With kind regards, > > -- > David Partain David.Partain@ericsson.com > Ericsson Radio Systems AB Tel: +46 13 28 41 44 > Research and Innovation Fax: +46 13 28 75 67 > P.O. Box 1248 http://www.lmera.ericsson.se/~epkpart > SE-581 12 Linköping, Sweden ERA/LVA/RN > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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