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From: deborah@gallifrey.microunity.com (Deborah Gronke Bennett)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.0 Install Troubles..
In-Reply-To: loren@beauty.ucsb.edu's message of 30 Jan 1996 18:06:30 GMT
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Organization: MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc.
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 00:13:25 GMT
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In article <4elmn6$s0h@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu> loren@beauty.ucsb.edu (Loren Koss) writes:


   I have a 2.0.5 system running perfectly, but figured I should upgrade.  I 
   am not touching my production machine, so grabbed a pentium/120, threw in 
   a 700meg hard drive, put a 3com etherlink III 3c509 card in it and booted 
   the BOOT disk.  Got all the way to media, put FTP (I have a direct 
   full-time connection) and then it said, "YOU HAVE SELECTED A SERIAL 
   LINK."  What the hell is that?  Previous versions would ask how you 
   wanted to install, you would select sl0 or ep0.  This one assumes 
   serial?  How do I upgrade using my ethernet connection over the internet?

(I tried to reply by email, but your reply address is bad)
Is your network card being detected by the install? I had one of
these helpfully moved by Win95 or some PnP stuff to an address and
IRQ other than the factory default 0x300 and IRQ10 (which is where the
boot floppy OS expects them to be). You can either reconfig
the 3Com card using the DOS utility floppy that came with it,
or boot the install floppy with -c and adjust the install kernel.
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Deborah Gronke Bennett 	(WD5HJH) 	kernel and device drivers engineer
deborah@microunity.com			(408)-734-8100
MicroUnity Systems Eng., 255 Caspian Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1015 USA