At 2:23 AM +0200 2002/10/12, Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:

>  easy workaround: don't select kernel set in sysinst and unpack it
>  manually.  or install it whithout sysinst at all.

	I don't suppose you have any more detailed instructions you could 
give me for either of these two suggestions?

>  also consider netbooting, using floppy on sparc looks a bit weird
>  to me :)

	Unfortunately, that isn't an option.  While I do have a FreeBSD 
machine in the house, it doesn't have the disk space to be a netboot 
server, and it's on a different network going through an 802.11b base 
station (doing DHCP & NAT) that I doubt understands how to direct 
incoming netboot requests to a particular back-end server.

	I would like to get the FreeBSD machine on the same network, but 
while I managed to cook up a /etc/pccard.conf entry for the Belkin 
F5D5020 10/100Base-TX PCMCIA card, and FreeBSD does see to recognize 
the card, I haven't been able to get it to successfully use it.  The 
only network connectivity I've been able to get working for the 
FreeBSD box is 802.11b WiFi (although I do have some different cards 
from different manufacturers available to me).

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