Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 09:38:08 +0100 (MET) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD current users) Subject: Re: Installation: still not perfect Message-ID: <199612050838.JAA21912@freebie.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <4929.849755388@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Dec 4, 96 07:09:48 pm"
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes: >> 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. I found something about it somewhere. But wouldn't it make sense to put it in the standard distribution somewhere? >> 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: Well, I did RTFM, but it must have been the wrong FM. >> 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. === root@freebie (/dev/ttyp1) ~ 13 -> locate about.txt === root@freebie (/dev/ttyp1) ~ 14 -> locate ABOUT.TXT === root@freebie (/dev/ttyp1) ~ 15 -> Where do I find that? Recall that we're on -current here, and you'd expect something that important to be in /usr/share/doc somewhere. It doesn't seem to be in the CVS tree, either. I don't have any intention to install 2.1.6 (I've now installed -current on the box). Greg
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