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Date:      Sun, 3 Mar 02 17:08:31 PST
From:      perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison)
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   installation/setup attempt not going well
Message-ID:  <10203040108.AA08008@pluto.rain.com>

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I have installed and administered many Unix flavors -- the list is at
the end -- but I am having the very devil of a time trying to set up
FreeBSD 4.5.

I am confident that I have done more wrong than right while installing
from CD, but have got to the point where I can log in.  I expect to
blow the whole thing away and start over, but would prefer to do that
only once.  If I try to start over now, I'll surely have to throw away
the second attempt also.

1.  I would prefer to retrieve the list of installed packages, and use
    that list as a starting point next time, instead of wasting an hour
    digging through the package selection menus again.  Is this possible?

2.  The first login prompt showed the hostname as "amnesiac" or some
    such, and after I logged in hostname(1) produced a blank line.
    I suppose this is related to the fact that, when I tried to set up
    networking during install, the only choices offered were variants
    on PPP and SLIP:  it evidently hadn't noticed the 3C509.  I hadn't
    been able to find it in the collection of network drivers during
    kernel configuration, either.  Am I mistaken about having seen the
    3C509 in the supported hardware list?  (I'd actually prefer use
    a PCI network card based on the Intel 82596 chip instead, but I
    hadn't been able to find that chip in the supported list.)

3.  I tried to patch things up using /stand/sysinstall, and did not get
    very far.  The first time I tried to su, it said I wasn't in the
    "wheel" group.  I don't recall the initial account setup, during
    install, having suggested that.  (Fixed by logging in as root --
    which one is not supposed to do? -- and editing /etc/group.)

4.  At this point, I could log in, su, and run /stand/sysinstall.
    I selected Configure, then Networking, then Interfaces.  The
    3C509 is still not listed, but there is a "faith0" identified as
    <unknown network interface type>.  I selected that, then No to
    IPv6 and DHCP.  Now I can finally enter a hostname, IP address,
    etc; but even after OK there's no place to identify the driver
    that I want it to use.  I suppose these 2 lines (from the dmesg)
    are related; but what is the meaning of identifying the irq, then
    claiming that there isn't one?

    ep0: <3Com 3C509-Combo EtherLink III> at port 0x210-0x21f irq 10 on isa0
    ep0: No irq?!

5.  Farther down the "Network Services Menu" my installation choices
    to enable NFS server and client are shown, but doesn't NFS require
    the portmapper?  It's not shown as enabled.  F1 does nothing at all.

6.  The last line is "TCP Extensions  Allow RFC1323 and RFC1644 TCP
    extensions?"  How do I decide whether or not I want these?  F1
    doesn't work here, either.

7.  XF86Setup doesn't seem to like my Trident TGUI9680 card.  It's in
    the list, but an attempt to select it results in

    *** The server required by your card is not installed!  Please
    abort, install the unknown server as /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_unknown
    and run this program again ***

    That's not very helpful at all!  How do I go about "installing the
    unknown server"?  Where do I find it?  And above all, why doesn't
    this allegedly-friendly setup program KNOW where to find it?????

8.  Three lines below "XFree86" is a line "Load KLD     Load a KLD from
    a floppy".  Unlike items 5 and 6 above, F1 does something here; but
    the screen gives no clue as to what a KLD is or why I might need to
    load one.

uname -a says

FreeBSD saturn 4.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #0: Mon Jan 28 14:31:56 GMT 2002
    murray@builder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC  i386

dmesg says

Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #0: Mon Jan 28 14:31:56 GMT 2002
    murray@builder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (267.27-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x634  Stepping = 4
  Features=0x80f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,MMX>
real memory  = 50331648 (49152K bytes)
config> di pcic0
config> di sn0
config> di lnc0
config> di ie0
config> di fe0
config> di ed0
config> di cs0
config> di bt0
config> di aic0
config> di aha0
config> di adv0
config> q
avail memory = 44347392 (43308K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0496000.
Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc049609c.
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
md0: Malloc disk
Using $PIR table, 7 entries at 0xc00f0cc0
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcib0: <Intel 82443LX (440 LX) host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
pcib1: <Intel 82443LX (440 LX) PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
isab0: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 4.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> port 0xd800-0xd80f at device 4.1 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
uhci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> port 0xd400-0xd41f irq 10 at device 4.2 on pci0
usb0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
chip1: <Intel 82371AB Power management controller> port 0xe800-0xe80f at device 4.3 on pci0
pci0: <Trident model 9660 VGA-compatible display device> at 11.0 irq 11
orm0: <Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0
ep0: <3Com 3C509-Combo EtherLink III> at port 0x210-0x21f irq 10 on isa0
ep0: No irq?!
ep0: ep_alloc() failed! (6)
device_probe_and_attach: ep0 attach returned 6
fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/9 bytes threshold
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
ad0: 4126MB <ST34313A> [8944/15/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
acd0: CDROM <LTN301> at ata1-master using PIO4
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a

Finally, here's the promised list of Unix variants:

    6th edition on a PDP-11; SunOS 3.5, 4.0, and 4.1; UnixWare 1 and 2;
    Solaris 1 and 2; Red Hat Linux 6.2; OpenBSD 3.0.

I may have forgotten some.


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