Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 14:32:22 -0700 From: Deborah Gronke Bennett <deborah@microunity.com> To: freebsd-install@freebsd.org Subject: network misconfig after 2.1 installation Message-ID: <199604122132.OAA01761@gallifrey.microunity.com>
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I have found a problem with the 2.1 installation, and I am hoping this can be fixed in the next release. I installed the X-User cluster from the Express menu, using a local SCSI CD-ROM as my media. I then installed the DES package (all pieces) from the Custom menu, using a filesystem on a local server via nfs as my media. (The install directory on the server contains more than the DES install files). The server is on the same subnet as the machine being installed. After both installs, I checked the network interfaces section of the Configuration menu. The information I had entered for the server which made the nfs install possible (i.e. IP addr, nameserver IP addr, gateway IP addr, netmask value) was still in the menu, and it was correct. After the system rebooted when I exited the installation, the network did not come up configure properly. The netmask was wrong (ff000000) among other things. After several attempts, I discovered that if I performed the exact same steps as above, except that I installed the X-User cluster from NFS from that same fileserver, my result was different. After the reboot after installation, the machine came up with the correct network configuration. I tracked down the problem - the line in /etc/sysconfig which should read ifconfig_de0="inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.0" was missing after the first install above, but present after the second. I believe this is a bug, since all the other information that I entered (such as hostname, host's IP addr, defaultrouter) did get placed in /etc/sysconfig.
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