From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 12 13:19:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70A0337B405 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:19:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65B8D2B697; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:19:14 +0100 (CET) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 33F9D162; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 08:19:09 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 08:19:09 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Thomas Fiebig Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation with PLIP Message-ID: <20011113081909.G685@k7.mavetju.org> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Thomas Fiebig , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200111121216.NAA18857@stanley.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200111121216.NAA18857@stanley.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de>; from tfie@lrs.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de on Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 01:16:12PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 01:16:12PM +0100, Thomas Fiebig wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 10:10:20AM +0100, Thomas Fiebig wrote: > > > display shows htat the network initializes succesfully, but after installing > > > /etc/fstab the installation process hangs up and after that just an error > > > message like "RPC portmapper failure - RPC timeout". If I look on display, an > > > ifconfig -a command shows the right initialization of lp0. An tcpdump -i lp1 on > > > > You might want to use something else than an NFS distribution, for > > example FTP. > > > > Thanks for answering that fast, but: Why should FTP via PLIP be better? Other guys have reported > that installing via PLIP and NFS is that easy. Possibly there is another mistake I do??? Well, I know the problems you can have if you don't have NFS setup properly, it will take days to find out why it isn't working and so on. For FTP you only need to enable the ftpd and you're running. And if you run ngrep, at least you can debug it :-) Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message