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Re: question about NIC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (matt debergalis)
Fri Feb 5 10:50:27 1999
To: Sean M Maguire <sleeper@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
From: matt debergalis <deberg@MIT.EDU>
Date: 05 Feb 1999 10:50:13 -0500
In-Reply-To: Sean M Maguire's message of "Wed, 03 Feb 1999 11:48:08 EST"
Sean> I think I would like to go with the "custom 1.3.3 kernel with
Sean> the current release" option. Can you give me a rough outline
Sean> of the procedure? The generic kernel in the 1.3.3 install
Sean> boot.fs file (from netbsd.org) cannot find the card, and I was
Sean> also unable to install from an unmounted fs (my FAT
Sean> partition), because the disklabel couldn't identify the
Sean> filesystem type. Am I going to have to install from floppies,
Sean> or is there an easier way? Right now I have a formatted,
Sean> unbootable partition which the boot floppy identifies as "old
Sean> NetBSD," and have failed to get NetBSD installed, much less
Sean> configured for my NIC. Thanks for any help. If I should have
Sean> sent this to netbsd-help, let me know.
yeah, you're probably better off emailing netbsd-help@mit.edu, since
individual people (read me!) might be too hosed to respond quickly all
the time.
i'm not sure why you've started with the boot file from netbsd.org,
unless you're trying to install a stock netbsd system. if you're
looking for netbsd-athena, use the boot image in
/mit/netbsd/release/athena-8.2/i386/floppies/floppy.fs
what kind of nic do you have? if the default install doesn't recognize
your card, we may be able to create a custom kernel that does.
matt
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