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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD over a modem on sio2 Date: 6 Jan 1996 19:18:25 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4cmhu1$eli@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4cj9n7$2po@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Alec Habig) writes: > However, my modem is on COM3 (sio2). It seems that the installation > kernel only likes sio0 and sio1. In the old FreeBSD, I had to > recompile the kernel, and create the /dev/cuaa2 device manually. > Obviously, I can't do this from a boot floppy :) The `-c' option from the bootblocks is your friend. Reconfigure your sio0 to the IO address and IRQ of your COM3 just for installation. The kernel will then accept the device as sio0. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)