Jared D. McNeill writes:
> 
> The installer (for 1.5_ALPHA anyway) says that it can't detect an ethernet
> card if I choose to do an ftp install after bringing up the sl0

Well this is a bug IMHO.  It should either work or be disabled completely.

> device. I'm currently installing it by hand (at a whopping 0.82KB/s,
> thankyouverymuch 9600 baud). What needs to be done after all the disk sets
> are untarred other than MAKEDEV?

Hmm, couldn't get at least 57600?  Anyway, you will usually want to edit
/etc/rc.conf.  You can put all of your changes in /etc/rc.local.conf and
not have to continously change /etc/rc.conf if you track -current.

Just create /etc/rc.local.conf with something like this:
rc_configured=YES
hostname="whatever"
wscons=YES
apmd=YES
...

There are plenty of other little "tweaks" that you might want to do, but
at least you should be able to go multiuser and login.  Oh, and I'm
assuming that /etc/fstab got created when you partitioned/labeled the
disk.  If you're installing manually you probably figured this out already.

-Andrew
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