[265] in netbsd-help mailing list archive
Re: Installing NetBSD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Thu Aug 10 14:18:04 1995
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 14:17:27 -0400
To: ray@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[263] in netbsd-help mailing list archive"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1995 02:18:05 EDT
Sorry about this. Usually we're a lot more timely, but sometimes
things get bogged down...
> I am trying to install NetBSD, but I am running into a
> "NFS Portmap: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out" error.
> I have a Gateway 2000 Pentium 90 with a 3Com 3c509 ethernet card
> using IRQ 3 and I/O base address 300H. I have used the card
> before, and it seems to be fully functional.
This looks a lot like the installation script is failing to properly
configure your network card. We've seen this failure mode once before,
but haven't been able to track it down. The script thinks it has configured
the card correctly and is able to ping something on the network, but
in fact it is confused.
> What should I do to correct this problem? Here is part of my
> installation dialogue:
>
[...]
> Wha
t is machine's IP address? 18.241.0.141
> Testing network interfaces . . . success on interface ep0 with flags:
> link0 -link1 -link2
> Use what ethernet interface? [ep0]
> Use what flags? [link0 -link1 -link2]
> Which NFS server? [18.181.0.24]
At this point, could you hit ^C and report the output of:
ifconfig -a
netstat -rn
and ping 18.241.0.1
Sorry we took so long to respond!
--jhawk
