It is sort of working now. Well its working well enough so that I'm
telnetting out to a server I maintain elsewhere to send this
message. I still intend to reinstall from scratch tomorrow. I still
can't quite figure where all the networking stuff should actually
go. Actually If I could figure out how to do a network install and
have emacs available immediately when the install finished I'd be
completely happy. (at least for a while)>

I've determined that my ethernet is detected as mc0. I was able to get
out by manually issuing the ifconfig and route commands. I also had to
created resolv.conf.

The install instructions say to add "ifconfig_mc0="inet .... ". Does
that create the files, someplace. I couldn't find any files like the
ones you described. Are they supposed to be in the /etc directory. I
suspect I'll figure this one out by just going through the rc files.

> You also need to set up the appropriate ifconfig.* file(s) -- one 
> file for each ethernet card. For instance, I have an ifconfig.ae0 and 
> an ifconfig.ae1 because I have two ethernet cards. You can get a list 
> of all of the various network devices (? -- not sure what they are 
> called, really... things like sn0, ae0, etc.) by running ifconfig -a
> 
> Each file contains a line like the following:
> 
> inet roberta netmask 255.255.255.0
> 
> "roberta" could also be replaced with your IP address.
> 

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Josh Kuperman                       
josh@saratoga.lib.ny.us