From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 16 19:13:14 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA20251 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 19:13:14 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA20240 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 19:12:54 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA02200; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 11:55:56 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199507170225.LAA02200@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: basic no network setup question To: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 11:55:56 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Jan Isley" at Jul 16, 95 08:30:48 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1130 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Jan Isley stands accused of saying: > > Yea, I have tested 23 different sysinstall versions about a hundred > times but I am not actually running FreeBSD *yet*. Before I decide > to spend $50 that I don't have on the admin book (the red one?) that > everyone recommends or if I give the money to Walnut Creek and > actually buy the CD, I thought I would ask if this startup looks > normal. Having compiled a new kernel and edited /etc/sysconfig > this is printed at boot up: How about telling us _what_ you edited in /etc/sysinstall? For all we know, you could have copied in a couple of pages of a Steven King novel 8) It _looks_ like you've hosed your network configuration, but it's impossible to tell. Everything else looks pretty normal. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[