From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 19 6:37:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from enterprise.spock.org (cm-24-29-85-81.nycap.rr.com [24.29.85.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5703D37B406 for ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 06:37:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@enterprise.spock.org) Received: (from jon@localhost) by enterprise.spock.org serial EF600Q3T-B7F; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 09:34:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jon)$ Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 09:34:17 -0400 From: Jonathan Chen To: Vincent Poy Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , Tom Fischer , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Userbase of -current Message-ID: <20010819093417.A88723@enterprise.spock.org> References: <20010801061113.A6285@hades.hell.gr> <20010818175404.I2962-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: telnet/1.1x In-Reply-To: <20010818175404.I2962-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>; from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET on Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 05:56:19PM -1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 05:56:19PM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote: > Speaking about -current and laptops, I know Warner mentioned the > 3COM 3CXFEM656C working in -current but what's the proper way to install > FreeBSD on a IBM ThinkPad 770Z with that NIC/Modem combo since the floppy > disks don't seem to show the card on a 6162001 snapshot from > current.FreeBSD.ORG. I was thinking about making a CD of the snapshot but > is there a bootable ISO available? The FreeBSD boot floppies do not support NEWCARD. I could perhaps look into generating a newcard-kernel.flp once 4.4 is released and current.freebsd.org is fixed, if people thing that it's a good idea. But for now, you can either install FreeBSD from a DOS partition, or IIRC current.jp.freebsd.org generates bootable ISO's of -current. But I can't seem to connect right now so I can't check... Or, simply unplug the harddrive from your laptop and plug it into another machine to do the install. When I fubar'ed my laptop's fs not too long ago, I hot-plugged my laptop harddrive into my desktop, issued an "atacontrol reinit", and proceeded to merrily run sysinstall under a chroot. Of course, this is by no means "the proper way", but it gets the job done... -Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message