I bumped it up to 38400, but the ftp sessions are _still_ stalling
constantly. At least it's going a bit faster now (3.3KB/s or so when it's
actually working). I'm just glad ftp supports reget...

Jared

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Andrew Gillham wrote:

> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 00:47:37 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
> To: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.yi.org>
> Cc: Brian Stark <bstark@siemens-psc.com>, current-users@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Installation over a serial line
> 
> 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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