Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 12:25:57 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <freebsd@sasknow.com> To: Admin <admin@8hill.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hung up Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002131218260.45674-100000@sasknow.com> In-Reply-To: <009101bf763f$015024f0$0c65a8c0@THEAFTERLIFE.LOCAL>
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Admin wrote: Please configure your mail client to format your messages to ~72 characters per line to make your mail more easily readable on a wide variety of clients. > Hi, > I am a hardcore NEWBIE... I was installing for the first time, > Pentium 100 32 MB RAM. 1.5 gig HD.CDROM, and everything was going good > untill I got to the NIC configuration, it asked if I wanted to search > for a DHCP server which I have running Is this to say that somewhere on your LAN you have your OWN DHCP server, or do you mean your ISP uses DHCP? > but it hung there, I had to Perhaps your network card settings were not correct, or your interface settings were not correct. In order to help isolate the problem, if you know your relevant network numbers (current IP, domain, gateway, name servers, etc), try skipping DHCP and entering everything manually. If THAT doesn't work, then it's a good bet that either your ISP is down, or there was a problem driving your NIC. Since you can boot, please send us the full output of the `dmesg` command (cut and paste, please). > turn it off, I was able to get into the system but things jsut aren't > right, I can log in as root, but withouta password Im just not sure if > I screwed the install up , any Ideas as too what I shoud do . > Reinstall?? I don't know.... I'm assuming you installed off of CDROM or a local disk if you can now boot. Do you receive any error messages on bootup after the filesystems are mounted? (i.e., when all the packages and daemons are loading?) If your system seems to boot normally, you probably won't have to reinstall. You probably WILL see some error messages related to internet connectivity, though... Since your network interface isn't configured properly. At that point, you may have to try some different options in your kernel config and verify that the IO and IRQ addresses set for your NIC are correct. Also, verify that your NIC *is* supported under FreeBSD (check HARDWARE.TXT), and verify that you are using the correct driver. -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> 50% Owner, Sysadmin SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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