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<h1 class="TITLE"><a name="AEN2">FreeBSD/i386 4.6-RELEASE
Installation Instructions</a></h1>
<h3 class="CORPAUTHOR">The FreeBSD Project</h3>
<p class="COPYRIGHT">Copyright &copy; 2000, 2001, 2002 by
The FreeBSD Documentation Project</p>
<hr>
</div>
<blockquote class="ABSTRACT">
<div class="ABSTRACT">
<a name="AEN10"></a>
<p>This article gives some brief instructions on
installing FreeBSD/i386 4.6-RELEASE, with particular
emphasis given to obtaining a FreeBSD distribution. Some
notes on troubleshooting and frequently-asked questions
are also given.</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<div class="SECT1">
<hr>
<h1 class="SECT1"><a name="AEN12">1 Installing
FreeBSD</a></h1>
<p>This section documents the process of installing a new
distribution of FreeBSD. These instructions pay particular
emphasis to the process of obtaining the FreeBSD
4.6-RELEASE distribution and to beginning the installation
procedure. The <a href=
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html"
target="_top">``Installing FreeBSD''</a> chapter of the <a
href=
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/"
target="_top">FreeBSD Handbook</a> provides more in-depth
information about the installation program itself,
including a guided walkthrough with screenshots.</p>
<p>If you are upgrading from a previous release of FreeBSD,
please see <a href="#UPGRADING">Section 3</a> for
instructions on upgrading.</p>
<div class="SECT2">
<hr>
<h2 class="SECT2"><a name="GETTING-STARTED">1.1 Getting
Started</a></h2>
<p>Probably the most important pre-installation step that
can be taken is that of reading the various instruction
documents provided with FreeBSD. A roadmap of documents
pertaining to this release of FreeBSD can be found in <tt
class="FILENAME">README.TXT</tt>, which can usually be
found in the same location as this file; most of these
documents, such as the release notes and the hardware
compatability list, are also accessible in the
Documentation menu of the installer.</p>
<p>Note that on-line versions of the FreeBSD <a href=
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/"
target="_top">FAQ</a> and <a href=
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/"
target="_top">Handbook</a> are also available from the
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/" target="_top">FreeBSD
Project Web site</a>, if you have an Internet
connection.</p>
<p>This collection of documents may seem daunting, but
the time spent reading them will likely be saved many
times over. Being familiar with what resources are
available can also be helpful in the event of problems
during installation.</p>
<p>The best laid plans sometimes go awry, so if you run
into trouble take a look at <a href="#TROUBLE">Section
4</a>, which contains valuable troubleshooting
information. You should also read an updated copy of <tt
class="FILENAME">ERRATA.TXT</tt> before installing, since
this will alert you to any problems which have reported
in the interim for your particular release.</p>
<div class="IMPORTANT">
<blockquote class="IMPORTANT">
<p><b>Important:</b> While FreeBSD does its best to
safeguard against accidental loss of data, it's still
more than possible to <span class="emphasis"><i
class="EMPHASIS">wipe out your entire disk</i></span>
with this installation if you make a mistake. Please
do not proceed to the final FreeBSD installation menu
unless you've adequately backed up any important data
first.</p>
</blockquote>
</div>
</div>
<div class="SECT2">
<hr>
<h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN35">1.2 Hardware
Requirements</a></h2>
<p>FreeBSD for the IA-32 requires an 80386 or better
processor. The <a href=
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+4.6-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class=
"REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a>
installation program requires 16MB of RAM; after
installation, FreeBSD itself can be run in 4-8MB of RAM
with a pared-down kernel. You will need at least 100MB of
free hard drive space for the most minimal installation;
a more realistic minimum is on the order of 250-350MB.
See below for ways of shrinking existing DOS partitions
in order to install FreeBSD.</p>
<p>If you are not familiar with configuring hardware for
FreeBSD, you should be sure to read the <tt class=
"FILENAME">HARDWARE.TXT</tt> file; it contains important
information on what hardware is supported by FreeBSD.</p>
</div>
<div class="SECT2">
<hr>
<h2 class="SECT2"><a name="FLOPPIES">1.3 Floppy Disk
Image Instructions</a></h2>
<p>Depending on how you choose to install FreeBSD, you
may need to create a set of floppy disks (usually two) to
begin the installation process. This section briefly
describes how to create these disks, either from a CDROM
installation or from the Internet. Note that in the
common case of installing FreeBSD from CDROM, on a
machine that supports bootable CDROMs, the steps outlined
in this section will not be needed and can be
skipped.</p>
<p>For a normal CDROM or network installation, all you
need to copy onto actual floppies from the <tt class=
"FILENAME">floppies/</tt> directory are the <tt class=
"FILENAME">kern.flp</tt> and <tt class=
"FILENAME">mfsroot.flp</tt> images (for 1.44MB
floppies).</p>
<p>Getting these images over the network is easy. Simply
fetch the <tt class="REPLACEABLE"><i>release</i></tt><tt
class="FILENAME">/floppies/kern.flp</tt> and <tt class=
"REPLACEABLE"><i>release</i></tt><tt class=
"FILENAME">/floppies/mfsroot.flp</tt> files from <a href=
"ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases" target=
"_top">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases</a> or
one of the many mirrors listed at <a href=
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html"
target="_top">FTP Sites</a> section of the Handbook, or
on the <a href="http://www.freebsdmirrors.org/" target=
"_top">http://www.freebsdmirrors.org/</a> Web pages.</p>
<p>Get two blank, freshly formatted floppies and image
copy <tt class="FILENAME">kern.flp</tt> onto one and <tt
class="FILENAME">mfsroot.flp</tt> onto the other. These
images are <span class="emphasis"><i class=
"EMPHASIS">not</i></span> DOS files. You cannot simply
copy them to a DOS or UFS floppy as regular files, you
need to ``image'' copy them to the floppy with <tt class=
"FILENAME">fdimage.exe</tt> under DOS (see the <tt class=
"FILENAME">tools</tt> directory on your CDROM or FreeBSD
FTP mirror) or the <a href=
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dd&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+4.6-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class=
"REFENTRYTITLE">dd</span>(1)</span></a> command in
UNIX.</p>
<p>For example, to create the kernel floppy image from
DOS, you'd do something like this:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
<tt class="PROMPT">C&#62;</tt> <tt class=
"USERINPUT"><b>fdimage kern.flp a:</b></tt>
</pre>
<p>Assuming that you'd copied <tt class=
"FILENAME">fdimage.exe</tt> and <tt class=
"FILENAME">kern.flp</tt> into a directory somewhere. You
would do the same for <tt class=
"FILENAME">mfsroot.flp</tt>, of course.</p>
<p>If you're creating the boot floppy from a UNIX
machine, you may find that:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
<tt class="PROMPT">#</tt> <tt class=
"USERINPUT"><b>dd if=floppies/kern.flp of=/dev/rfd0</b></tt>
</pre>
<p>or</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
<tt class="PROMPT">#</tt> <tt class=
"USERINPUT"><b>dd if=floppies/kern.flp of=/dev/floppy</b></tt>
</pre>
<p>work well, depending on your hardware and operating
system environment (different versions of UNIX have
different names for the floppy drive).</p>
</div>
<div class="SECT2">
<hr>
<h2 class="SECT2"><a name="START-INSTALLATION">1.4
Installing FreeBSD from CDROM or the Internet</a></h2>
<p>The easiest type of installation is from CDROM. If you
have a supported CDROM drive and a FreeBSD installation
CDROM, there are 2 ways of starting the installation from
it:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>If your system supports bootable CDROM media
(usually an option which can be selectively enabled
in the controller's setup menu or in the PC BIOS for
some systems) and you have it enabled, FreeBSD
supports the ``El Torrito'' bootable CD standard.
Simply put the installation CD in your CDROM drive
and boot the system to begin installation.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Build a set of FreeBSD boot floppies from the <tt
class="FILENAME">floppies/</tt> directory in every
FreeBSD distribution. Either simply use the <tt
class="FILENAME">makeflp.bat</tt> script from DOS or
read <a href="#FLOPPIES">Section 1.3</a> for more
information on creating the bootable floppies under
different operating systems. Then you simply boot
from the first floppy and you should soon be in the
FreeBSD installation.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<br>
<p>If you don't have a CDROM (or your computer does not
support booting from CDROM) and would like to simply
install over the net using PPP, SLIP or a dedicated
connection. You should start the installation by building
a set of FreeBSD boot floppies from the files <tt class=
"FILENAME">floppies/kern.flp</tt> and <tt class=
"FILENAME">floppies/mfsroot.flp</tt> using the
instructions found in <a href="#FLOPPIES">Section
1.3</a>. Restart your computer using the <tt class=
"FILENAME">kern.flp</tt> disk; when prompted, insert the
<tt class="FILENAME">mfsroot.flp</tt> disk. Then, please
go to <a href="#FTPNFS">Section 1.5.5</a> for additional
tips on installing via FTP or NFS.</p>
</div>
<div class="SECT2">
<hr>
<h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN131">1.5 Detail on various
installation types</a></h2>
<p>Once you've gotten yourself to the initial
installation screen somehow, you should be able to follow
the various menu prompts and go from there. If you've
never used the FreeBSD installation before, you are also
encouraged to read some of the documentation in the
Documentation submenu as well as the general ``Usage''
instructions on the first menu.</p>
<div class="NOTE">
<blockquote class="NOTE">
<p><b>Note:</b> If you get stuck at a screen, press
the <b class="KEYCAP">F1</b> key for online
documentation relevant to that specific section.</p>
</blockquote>
</div>
<p>If you've never installed FreeBSD before, or even if
you have, the ``Standard'' installation mode is the most
recommended since it makes sure that you'll visit all the
various important checklist items along the way. If
you're much more comfortable with the FreeBSD
installation process and know <span class="emphasis"><i
class="EMPHASIS">exactly</i></span> what you want to do,
use the ``Express'' or ``Custom'' installation options.
If you're upgrading an existing system, use the
``Upgrade'' option.</p>
<p>The FreeBSD installer supports the direct use of
floppy, DOS, tape, CDROM, FTP, NFS and UFS partitions as
installation media; further tips on installing from each
type of media are listed below.</p>
<div class="SECT3">
<hr>
<h3 class="SECT3"><a name="AEN170">1.5.1 Installing
from a Network CDROM</a></h3>
<p>If you simply wish to install from a local CDROM
drive then see <a href="#START-INSTALLATION">Section
1.4</a>. If you don't have a CDROM drive on your system
and wish to use a FreeBSD distribution CD in the CDROM
drive of another system to which you have network
connectivity, there are also several ways of going
about it:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>If you would be able to FTP install FreeBSD
directly from the CDROM drive in some FreeBSD
machine, it's quite easy: You simply add the
following line to the password file (using the <a
href=
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vipw&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+4.6-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class=
"REFENTRYTITLE">vipw</span>(8)</span></a>
command):</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
ftp:*:99:99::0:0:FTP:/cdrom:/sbin/nologin
</pre>
<p>On the machine on which you are running the
install, go to the Options menu and set Release
Name to <tt class="LITERAL">any</tt>. You may then
choose a Media type of <tt class="LITERAL">FTP</tt>
and type in <tt class="FILENAME">ftp://<tt class=
"REPLACEABLE"><i>machine</i></tt></tt> after
picking ``URL'' in the ftp sites menu.</p>
<div class="WARNING">
<blockquote class="WARNING">
<p><b>Warning:</b> This may allow anyone on the
local network (or Internet) to make ``anonymous
FTP'' connections to this machine, which may
not be desirable.</p>
</blockquote>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<p>If you would rather use NFS to export the CDROM
directly to the machine(s) you'll be installing
from, you need to first add an entry to the <tt
class="FILENAME">/etc/exports</tt> file (on the
machine with the CDROM drive). The example below
allows the machine <tt class=
"HOSTID">ziggy.foo.com</tt> to mount the CDROM
directly via NFS during installation:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
/cdrom -ro ziggy.foo.com
</pre>
<p>The machine with the CDROM must also be
configured as an NFS server, of course, and if
you're not sure how to do that then an NFS
installation is probably not the best choice for
you unless you're willing to read up on <a href=
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rc.conf&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+4.6-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class=
"REFENTRYTITLE">rc.conf</span>(5)</span></a> and
configure things appropriately. Assuming that this
part goes smoothly, you should be able to enter:
<tt class="FILENAME"><tt class=
"REPLACEABLE"><i>cdrom-host</i></tt>:/cdrom</tt> as
the path for an NFS installation when the target
machine is installed, e.g. <tt class=
"FILENAME">wiggy:/cdrom</tt>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="SECT3">
<hr>
<h3 class="SECT3"><a name="AEN202">1.5.2 Installing
from Floppies</a></h3>
<p>If you must install from floppy disks, either due to
unsupported hardware or just because you enjoy doing
things the hard way, you must first prepare some
floppies for the install.</p>
<p>First, make your boot floppies as described in <a
href="#FLOPPIES">Section 1.3</a>.</p>
<p>Second, peruse <a href="#LAYOUT">Section 2</a> and
pay special attention to the ``Distribution Format''
section since it describes which files you're going to
need to put onto floppy and which you can safely
skip.</p>
<p>Next you will need, at minimum, as many 1.44MB
floppies as it takes to hold all files in the <tt
class="FILENAME">bin</tt> (binary distribution)
directory. If you're preparing these floppies under
DOS, then these floppies <span class="emphasis"><i
class="EMPHASIS">must</i></span> be formatted using the
MS-DOS <tt class="FILENAME">FORMAT</tt> command. If
you're using Windows, use the Windows File Manager
format command.</p>
<div class="IMPORTANT">
<blockquote class="IMPORTANT">
<p><b>Important:</b> Frequently, floppy disks come
``factory preformatted''. While convenient, many
problems reported by users in the past have
resulted from the use of improperly formatted
media. Re-format them yourself, just to make
sure.</p>
</blockquote>
</div>
<p>If you're creating the floppies from another FreeBSD
machine, a format is still not a bad idea though you
don't need to put a DOS filesystem on each floppy. You
can use the <a href=
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=disklabel&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+4.6-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class=
"REFENTRYTITLE">disklabel</span>(8)</span></a> and <a
href=
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=newfs&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+4.6-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class=
"REFENTRYTITLE">newfs</span>(8)</span></a> commands to
put a UFS filesystem on a floppy, as the following
sequence of commands illustrates:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
<tt class="PROMPT">#</tt> <tt class=
"USERINPUT"><b>fdformat -f 1440 fd0.1440</b></tt>
<tt class="PROMPT">#</tt> <tt class=
"USERINPUT"><b>disklabel -w -r fd0.1440 floppy3</b></tt>
<tt class="PROMPT">#</tt> <tt class=
"USERINPUT"><b>newfs -t 2 -u 18 -l 1 -i 65536 /dev/fd0</b></tt>
</pre>
<p>After you've formatted the floppies for DOS or UFS,
you'll need to copy the files onto them. The
distribution files are split into chunks conveniently
sized so that 5 of them will fit on a conventional
1.44MB floppy. Go through all your floppies, packing as
many files as will fit on each one, until you've got
all the distributions you want packed up in this
fashion. Each distribution should go into its own
subdirectory on the floppy, e.g.: <tt class=
"FILENAME">a:\bin\bin.inf</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">a:\bin\bin.aa</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">a:\bin\bin.ab</tt>, ...</p>
<div class="IMPORTANT">
<blockquote class="IMPORTANT">
<p><b>Important:</b> The <tt class=
"FILENAME">bin.inf</tt> file also needs to go on
the first floppy of the <tt class=
"FILENAME">bin</tt> set since it is read by the
installation program in order to figure out how
many additional pieces to look for when fetching
and concatenating the distribution. When putting
distributions onto floppies, the <tt class=
"FILENAME">distname.inf</tt> file <span class=
"emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">must</i></span>
occupy the first floppy of each distribution set.
This is also covered in <tt class=
"FILENAME">README.TXT</tt>.</p>
</blockquote>
</div>
<p>Once you come to the Media screen of the install,
select ``Floppy'' and you'll be prompted for the
rest.</p>
</div>
<div class="SECT3">
<hr>
<h3 class="SECT3"><a name="AEN244">1.5.3 Installing
from a DOS partition</a></h3>
<p>To prepare for installation from an MS-DOS partition
you should simply copy the files from the distribution
into a directory called <tt class=
"FILENAME">FREEBSD</tt> on the Primary DOS partition
(<tt class="DEVICENAME">C:</tt>). For example, to do a
minimal installation of FreeBSD from DOS using files
copied from the CDROM, you might do something like
this:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
<tt class="PROMPT">C:\&#62;</tt> <tt class=
"USERINPUT"><b>MD C:\FREEBSD</b></tt>
<tt class="PROMPT">C:\&#62;</tt> <tt class=
"USERINPUT"><b>XCOPY /S E:\BIN C:\FREEBSD\BIN</b></tt>
</pre>
<p>Assuming that <tt class="DEVICENAME">E:</tt> was
where your CD was mounted.</p>
<p>For as many distributions as you wish to install
from DOS (and you have free space for), install each
one in a directory under <tt class=
"FILENAME">C:\FREEBSD</tt> - the <tt class=
"FILENAME">BIN</tt> dist is only the minimal
requirement.</p>
<p>Once you've copied the directories, you can simply
launch the installation from floppies as normal and
select ``DOS'' as your media type when the time
comes.</p>
</div>
<div class="SECT3">
<hr>
<h3 class="SECT3"><a name="AEN261">1.5.4 Installing
from QIC/SCSI Tape</a></h3>
<p>When installing from tape, the installation program
expects the files to be simply tar'ed onto it, so after
fetching all of the files for the distributions you're
interested in, simply use <a href=
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tar&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+4.6-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class=
"REFENTRYTITLE">tar</span>(1)</span></a> to get them
onto the tape with a command something like this:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
<tt class="PROMPT">#</tt> <tt class="USERINPUT"><b>cd <tt
class="REPLACEABLE"><i>/where/you/have/your/dists</i></tt></b></tt>
<tt class="PROMPT">#</tt> <tt class=
"USERINPUT"><b>tar cvf /dev/rsa0 <tt class=
"REPLACEABLE"><i>dist1</i></tt> .. <tt class=
"REPLACEABLE"><i>dist2</i></tt></b></tt>
</pre>
<p>When you go to do the installation, you should also
make sure that you leave enough room in some temporary
directory (which you'll be allowed to choose) to
accommodate the <span class="emphasis"><i class=
"EMPHASIS">full</i></span> contents of the tape you've
created. Due to the non-random access nature of tapes,
this method of installation requires quite a bit of
temporary storage. You should expect to require as much
temporary storage as you have stuff written on
tape.</p>
<div class="NOTE">
<blockquote class="NOTE">
<p><b>Note:</b> When going to do the installation,
the tape must be in the drive <span class=
"emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">before</i></span>
booting from the boot floppies. The installation
``probe'' may otherwise fail to find it.</p>
</blockquote>
</div>
<p>Now create a boot floppy as described in <a href=
"#FLOPPIES">Section 1.3</a> and proceed with the
installation.</p>
</div>
<div class="SECT3">
<hr>
<h3 class="SECT3"><a name="FTPNFS">1.5.5 Installing
over a Network using FTP or NFS</a></h3>
<p>After making the boot floppies as described in the
first section, you can load the rest of the
installation over a network using one of 3 types of
connections: serial port, parallel port, or
Ethernet.</p>
<div class="SECT4">
<hr>
<h4 class="SECT4"><a name="AEN286">1.5.5.1 Serial
Port</a></h4>
<p>SLIP support is rather primitive, and is limited
primarily to hard-wired links, such as a serial cable
running between two computers. The link must be
hard-wired because the SLIP installation doesn't
currently offer a dialing capability. If you need to
dial out with a modem or otherwise dialog with the
link before connecting to it, then I recommend that
the PPP utility be used instead.</p>
<p>If you're using PPP, make sure that you have your
Internet Service Provider's IP address and DNS
information handy as you'll need to know it fairly
early in the installation process. You may also need
to know your own IP address, though PPP supports
dynamic address negotiation and may be able to pick
up this information directly from your ISP if they
support it.</p>
<p>You will also need to know how to use the various
``AT commands'' for dialing out with your particular
brand of modem as the PPP dialer provides only a very
simple terminal emulator.</p>
</div>
<div class="SECT4">
<hr>
<h4 class="SECT4"><a name="AEN292">1.5.5.2 Parallel
Port</a></h4>
<p>If a hard-wired connection to another FreeBSD or
Linux machine is available, you might also consider
installing over a ``laplink'' style parallel port
cable. The data rate over the parallel port is much
higher than what is typically possible over a serial
line (up to 50k/sec), thus resulting in a quicker
installation. It's not typically necessary to use
``real'' IP addresses when using a point-to-point
parallel cable in this way and you can generally just
use RFC 1918 style addresses for the ends of the link
(e.g. <tt class="HOSTID">10.0.0.1</tt>, <tt class=
"HOSTID">10.0.0.2</tt>, etc).</p>
<div class="IMPORTANT">
<blockquote class="IMPORTANT">
<p><b>Important:</b> If you use a Linux machine
rather than a FreeBSD machine as your PLIP peer,
you will also have to specify <tt class=
"OPTION">link0</tt> in the TCP/IP setup screen's
``extra options for ifconfig'' field in order to
be compatible with Linux's slightly different
PLIP protocol.</p>
</blockquote>
</div>
</div>
<div class="SECT4">
<hr>
<h4 class="SECT4"><a name="AEN303">1.5.5.3
Ethernet</a></h4>
<p>FreeBSD supports many common Ethernet cards; a
table of supported cards is provided as part of the
FreeBSD Hardware Notes (see <tt class=
"FILENAME">HARDWARE.TXT</tt> in the Documentation
menu on the boot floppy or the top level directory of
the CDROM). If you are using one of the supported
PCMCIA Ethernet cards, also be sure that it's plugged
in <span class="emphasis"><i class=
"EMPHASIS">before</i></span> the laptop is powered
on. FreeBSD does not, unfortunately, currently
support ``hot insertion'' of PCMCIA cards during
installation.</p>
<p>You will also need to know your IP address on the
network, the <tt class="OPTION">netmask</tt> value
for your subnet and the name of your machine. Your
system administrator can tell you which values are
appropriate to your particular network setup. If you
will be referring to other hosts by name rather than
IP address, you'll also need a name server and
possibly the address of a gateway (if you're using
PPP, it's your provider's IP address) to use in
talking to it. If you want to install by FTP via an
HTTP proxy (see below), you will also need the
proxy's address.</p>
<p>If you do not know the answers to these questions
then you should really probably talk to your system
administrator <span class="emphasis"><i class=
"EMPHASIS">first</i></span> before trying this type
of installation. Using a randomly chosen IP address
or netmask on a live network is almost guaranteed not
to work, and will probably result in a lecture from
said system administrator.</p>
<p>Once you have a network connection of some sort
working, the installation can continue over NFS or
FTP.</p>
</div>
<div class="SECT4">
<hr>
<h4 class="SECT4"><a name="AEN314">1.5.5.4 NFS
installation tips</a></h4>
<p>NFS installation is fairly straight-forward:
Simply copy the FreeBSD distribution files you want
onto a server somewhere and then point the NFS media
selection at it.</p>
<p>If this server supports only ``privileged port''
access (this is generally the default for Sun and
Linux workstations), you will need to set this option
in the Options menu before installation can
proceed.</p>
<p>If you have a poor quality Ethernet card which
suffers from very slow transfer rates, you may also
wish to toggle the appropriate Options flag.</p>
<p>In order for NFS installation to work, the server
must also support ``subdir mounts'', e.g. if your
FreeBSD distribution directory lives on <tt class=
"FILENAME">wiggy:/usr/archive/stuff/FreeBSD</tt>,
then <tt class="HOSTID">wiggy</tt> will have to allow
the direct mounting of <tt class=
"FILENAME">/usr/archive/stuff/FreeBSD</tt>, not just
<tt class="FILENAME">/usr</tt> or <tt class=
"FILENAME">/usr/archive/stuff</tt>.</p>
<p>In FreeBSD's <tt class=
"FILENAME">/etc/exports</tt> file this is controlled
by the <tt class="OPTION">-alldirs</tt> option. Other
NFS servers may have different conventions. If you
are getting <tt class="LITERAL">Permission
Denied</tt> messages from the server then it's likely
that you don't have this properly enabled.</p>
</div>
<div class="SECT4">
<hr>
<h4 class="SECT4"><a name="AEN331">1.5.5.5 FTP
Installation tips</a></h4>
<p>FTP installation may be done from any mirror site
containing a reasonably up-to-date version of
FreeBSD. A full menu of reasonable choices for almost
any location in the world is provided in the FTP site
menu during installation.</p>
<p>If you are installing from some other FTP site not
listed in this menu, or you are having troubles
getting your name server configured properly, you can
also specify your own URL by selecting the ``URL''
choice in that menu. A URL can contain a hostname or
an IP address, so something like the following would
work in the absence of a name server:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
ftp://216.66.64.162/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.2-RELEASE
</pre>
<p>There are three FTP installation modes you can
use:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>FTP: This method uses the standard ``Active''
mode for transfers, in which the server initiates
a connection to the client. This will not work
through most firewalls but will often work best
with older FTP servers that do not support
passive mode. If your connection hangs with
passive mode, try this one.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>FTP Passive: This sets the FTP "Passive" mode
which prevents the server from opening
connections to the client. This option is best
for users to pass through firewalls that do not
allow incoming connections on random port
addresses.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>FTP via an HTTP proxy: This option instructs
FreeBSD to use HTTP to connect to a proxy for all
FTP operations. The proxy will translate the
requests and send them to the FTP server. This
allows the user to pass through firewalls that do
not allow FTP at all, but offer an HTTP proxy.
You must specify the hostname of the proxy in
addition to the FTP server.</p>
<p>In the rare case that you have an FTP proxy
that does not go through HTTP, you can specify
the URL as something like:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
<tt class="USERINPUT"><b>ftp://foo.bar.com:<tt class=
"REPLACEABLE"><i>port</i></tt>/pub/FreeBSD</b></tt>
</pre>
<p>In the URL above, <tt class=
"REPLACEABLE"><i>port</i></tt> is the port number
of the proxy FTP server.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<br>
</div>
</div>
<div class="SECT3">
<hr>
<h3 class="SECT3"><a name="AEN352">1.5.6 Tips for
Serial Console Users</a></h3>
<p>If you'd like to install FreeBSD on a machine using
just a serial port (e.g. you don't have or wish to use
a VGA card), please follow these steps:</p>
<div class="PROCEDURE">
<ol type="1">
<li>
<p>Connect some sort of ANSI (vt100) compatible
terminal or terminal emulation program to the <tt
class="DEVICENAME">COM1</tt> port of the PC you
are installing FreeBSD onto.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Unplug the keyboard (yes, that's correct!) and
then try to boot from floppy or the installation
CDROM, depending on the type of installation
media you have, with the keyboard unplugged.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>If you don't get any output on your serial
console, plug the keyboard in again and wait for
some beeps. If you are booting from the CDROM,
proceed to <a href="#HITSPACE">step 5</a> as soon
as you hear the beep.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>For a floppy boot, the first beep means to
remove the <tt class="FILENAME">kern.flp</tt>
floppy and insert the <tt class=
"FILENAME">mfsroot.flp</tt> floppy, after which
you should press <b class="KEYCAP">Enter</b> and
wait for another beep.</p>
</li>
<li>
<a name="HITSPACE"></a>
<p>Hit the space bar, then enter</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
<tt class="USERINPUT"><b>boot -h</b></tt>
</pre>
<p>and you should now definitely be seeing
everything on the serial port. If that still
doesn't work, check your serial cabling as well
as the settings on your terminal emulation
program or actual terminal device. It should be
set for 9600 baud, 8 bits, no parity.</p>
</li>
</ol>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="SECT2">
<hr>
<h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN374">1.6 Question and
Answer Section for IA-32 Architecture Users</a></h2>
<div class="QANDASET">
<dl>
<dt>1.6.1. <a href="#Q1.6.1.">Help! I have no space!
Do I need to delete everything first?</a></dt>
<dt>1.6.2. <a href="#Q1.6.2.">Can I use compressed
DOS filesystems from FreeBSD?</a></dt>
<dt>1.6.3. <a href="#Q1.6.3.">Can I mount my DOS
extended partitions?</a></dt>
<dt>1.6.4. <a href="#Q1.6.4.">Can I run DOS binaries
under FreeBSD?</a></dt>
</dl>
<div class="QANDAENTRY">
<div class="QUESTION">
<p><a name="Q1.6.1."></a><b>1.6.1.</b> Help! I have
no space! Do I need to delete everything first?</p>
</div>
<div class="ANSWER">
<p><b></b>If your machine is already running DOS
and has little or no free space available for
FreeBSD's installation, all is not lost! You may
find the <b class="APPLICATION">FIPS</b> utility,
provided in the <tt class="FILENAME">tools/</tt>
subdirectory on the FreeBSD CDROM or on the various
FreeBSD ftp sites, to be quite useful.</p>
<p><b class="APPLICATION">FIPS</b> allows you to
split an existing DOS partition into two pieces,
preserving the original partition and allowing you
to install onto the second free piece. You first
``defrag'' your DOS partition, using the DOS 6.xx
<tt class="FILENAME">DEFRAG</tt> utility or the <b
class="APPLICATION">Norton Disk Tools</b>, then run
FIPS. It will prompt you for the rest of the
information it needs. Afterwards, you can reboot
and install FreeBSD on the new partition. Also note
that FIPS will create the second partition as a
``clone'' of the first, so you'll actually see that
you now have two DOS Primary partitions where you
formerly had one. Don't be alarmed! You can simply
delete the extra DOS Primary partition (making sure
it's the right one by examining its size).</p>
<p><b class="APPLICATION">FIPS</b> does NOT
currently work with FAT32 or VFAT style partitions
as used by newer versions of Windows 95. To split
up such a partition, you will need a commercial
product such as <b class="APPLICATION">Partition
Magic</b>. Sorry, but this is just the breaks if
you've got a Windows partition hogging your whole
disk and you don't want to reinstall from
scratch.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="QANDAENTRY">
<div class="QUESTION">
<p><a name="Q1.6.2."></a><b>1.6.2.</b> Can I use
compressed DOS filesystems from FreeBSD?</p>
</div>
<div class="ANSWER">
<p><b></b>No. If you are using a utility such as <b
class="APPLICATION">Stacker</b>(tm) or <b class=
"APPLICATION">DoubleSpace</b>(tm), FreeBSD will
only be able to use whatever portion of the
filesystem you leave uncompressed. The rest of the
filesystem will show up as one large file (the
stacked/dblspaced file!). <span class="emphasis"><i
class="EMPHASIS">Do not remove that file</i></span>
as you will probably regret it greatly!</p>
<p>It is probably better to create another
uncompressed DOS extended partition and use this
for communications between DOS and FreeBSD if such
is your desire.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="QANDAENTRY">
<div class="QUESTION">
<p><a name="Q1.6.3."></a><b>1.6.3.</b> Can I mount
my DOS extended partitions?</p>
</div>
<div class="ANSWER">
<p><b></b>Yes. DOS extended partitions are mapped
in at the end of the other ``slices'' in FreeBSD,
e.g. your <tt class="DEVICENAME">D:</tt> drive
might be <tt class="FILENAME">/dev/da0s5</tt>, your
<tt class="DEVICENAME">E:</tt> drive <tt class=
"FILENAME">/dev/da0s6</tt>, and so on. This example
assumes, of course, that your extended partition is
on SCSI drive 0. For IDE drives, substitute <tt
class="LITERAL">ad</tt> for <tt class=
"LITERAL">da</tt> appropriately. You otherwise
mount extended partitions exactly like you would
mount any other DOS drive, e.g.:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
<tt class="PROMPT">#</tt> <tt class=
"USERINPUT"><b>mount -t msdos /dev/da0s5 /dos_d</b></tt>
</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="QANDAENTRY">
<div class="QUESTION">
<p><a name="Q1.6.4."></a><b>1.6.4.</b> Can I run
DOS binaries under FreeBSD?</p>
</div>
<div class="ANSWER">
<p><b></b>Ongoing work with BSDI's <a href=
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=doscmd&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+4.6-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class=
"REFENTRYTITLE">doscmd</span>(1)</span></a> utility
will suffice in many cases, though it still has
some rough edges. If you're interested in working
on this, please send mail to the FreeBSD-emulation
mailing list <tt class="EMAIL">&#60;<a href=
"mailto:freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org">freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org</a>&#62;</tt>
and indicate that you're interested in joining this
ongoing effort!</p>
<p>The <a href=
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/emulators/pcemu/pkg-descr">
<tt class="FILENAME">emulators/pcemu</tt></a>
port/package in the FreeBSD Ports Collection which
emulates an 8088 and enough BIOS services to run
DOS text mode applications. It requires the X
Window System (XFree86) to operate.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="SECT1">
<hr>
<h1 class="SECT1"><a name="LAYOUT">2 Distribution
Format</a></h1>
<p>A typical FreeBSD distribution directory looks something
like this:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
ERRATA.HTM README.TXT compat1x dict manpages
ERRATA.TXT RELNOTES.HTM compat20 doc packages
HARDWARE.HTM RELNOTES.TXT compat21 docbook.css ports
HARDWARE.TXT XF86336 compat22 floppies proflibs
INSTALL.HTM bin compat3x games src
INSTALL.TXT catpages compat4x info tools
README.HTM cdrom.inf crypto kernel
</pre>
<p>If you want to do a CDROM, FTP or NFS installation from
this distribution directory, all you need to do is make the
1.44MB boot floppies from the floppies directory (see <a
href="#FLOPPIES">Section 1.3</a> for instructions on how to
do this), boot them and follow the instructions. The rest
of the data needed during the installation will be obtained
automatically based on your selections. If you've never
installed FreeBSD before, you also want to read the
entirety of this document (the installation instructions)
file.</p>
<p>If you're trying to do some other type of installation
or are merely curious about how a distribution is
organized, what follows is a more thorough description of
each item in more detail:</p>
<ol type="1">
<li>
<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">*.TXT</tt> and <tt class=
"FILENAME">*.HTM</tt> files contain documentation (for
example, this document is contained in both <tt class=
"FILENAME">INSTALL.TXT</tt> and <tt class=
"FILENAME">INSTALL.HTM</tt>) and should be read before
starting an installation. The <tt class=
"FILENAME">*.TXT</tt> files are plain text, while the
<tt class="FILENAME">*.HTM</tt> files are HTML files
that can be read by almost any Web browser. Some
distributions may contain documentation in other
formats as well, such as PDF or PostScript.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><tt class="FILENAME">docbook.css</tt> is a Cascading
Style Sheet (CSS) file used by some Web browsers for
formatting the HTML documentation.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">XF86336</tt> directory
contains the XFree86 project's 3.3.6 release and
consists of a series of gzip'd tar files which contain
each component of the XFree86 distribution.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">bin</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">catpages</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">crypto</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">dict</tt>,
<tt class="FILENAME">doc</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">games</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">info</tt>,
<tt class="FILENAME">manpages</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">proflibs</tt>, and <tt class=
"FILENAME">src</tt> directories contain the primary
distribution components of FreeBSD itself and are split
into smaller files for easy packing onto floppies
(should that be necessary).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">compat1x</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">compat20</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">compat21</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">compat22</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">compat3x</tt>, and <tt class=
"FILENAME">compat4x</tt> directories contain
distributions for compatibility with older releases and
are distributed as single gzip'd tar files - they can
be installed during release time or later by running
their <tt class="FILENAME">install.sh</tt> scripts.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">floppies/</tt> subdirectory
contains the floppy installation images; further
information on using them can be found in <a href=
"#FLOPPIES">Section 1.3</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">packages</tt> and <tt
class="FILENAME">ports</tt> directories contain the
FreeBSD Packages and Ports Collections. Packages may be
installed from the packages directory by running the
command:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
<tt class="PROMPT">#</tt><tt class=
"USERINPUT"><b>/stand/sysinstall configPackages</b></tt>
</pre>
<p>Packages can also be installed by feeding individual
filenames in <tt class="FILENAME">packages</tt>/ to the
<a href=
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg_add&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+4.6-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class=
"REFENTRYTITLE">pkg_add</span>(1)</span></a>
command.</p>
<p>The Ports Collection may be installed like any other
distribution and requires about 100MB unpacked. More
information on the ports collection may be obtained
from <a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/" target=
"_top">http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/</a> or locally
from <tt class="FILENAME">/usr/share/doc/handbook</tt>
if you've installed the <tt class="FILENAME">doc</tt>
distribution.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Last of all, the <tt class="FILENAME">tools</tt>
directory contains various DOS tools for discovering
disk geometries, installing boot managers and the like.
It is purely optional and provided only for user
convenience.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<br>
<br>
<p>A typical distribution directory (for example, the <tt
class="FILENAME">info</tt> distribution) looks like this
internally:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
CHECKSUM.MD5 info.ab info.ad info.inf install.sh
info.aa info.ac info.ae info.mtree
</pre>
<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">CHECKSUM.MD5</tt> file contains
MD5 signatures for each file, should data corruption be
suspected, and is purely for reference. It is not used by
the actual installation and does not need to be copied with
the rest of the distribution files. The <tt class=
"FILENAME">info.a*</tt> files are split, gzip'd tar files,
the contents of which can be viewed by doing:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
<tt class="PROMPT">#</tt> <tt class=
"USERINPUT"><b>cat info.a* | tar tvzf -</b></tt>
</pre>
<p>During installation, they are automatically concatenated
and extracted by the installation procedure.</p>
<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">info.inf</tt> file is also
necessary since it is read by the installation program in
order to figure out how many pieces to look for when
fetching and concatenating the distribution. When putting
distributions onto floppies, the <tt class=
"FILENAME">.inf</tt> file <span class="emphasis"><i class=
"EMPHASIS">must</i></span> occupy the first floppy of each
distribution set!</p>
<p>The <tt class="FILENAME">info.mtree</tt> file is another
non-essential file which is provided for user reference. It
contains the MD5 signatures of the <span class=
"emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">unpacked</i></span>
distribution files and can be later used with the <a href=
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mtree&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+4.6-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class=
"REFENTRYTITLE">mtree</span>(8)</span></a> program to
verify the installation permissions and checksums against
any possible modifications to the file. When used with the
<tt class="FILENAME">bin</tt> distribution, this can be an
excellent way of detecting trojan horse attacks on your
system.</p>
<p>Finally, the <tt class="FILENAME">install.sh</tt> file
is for use by those who want to install the distribution
after installation time. To install the info distribution
from CDROM after a system was installed, for example, you'd
do:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
<tt class="PROMPT">#</tt> <tt class=
"USERINPUT"><b>cd /cdrom/info</b></tt>
<tt class="PROMPT">#</tt> <tt class=
"USERINPUT"><b>sh install.sh</b></tt>
</pre>
</div>
<div class="SECT1">
<hr>
<h1 class="SECT1"><a name="UPGRADING">3 Upgrading
FreeBSD</a></h1>
<p>These instructions describe a procedure for doing a
binary upgrade from an older version of FreeBSD.</p>
<div class="WARNING">
<blockquote class="WARNING">
<p><b>Warning:</b> While the FreeBSD upgrade procedure
does its best to safeguard against accidental loss of
data, it is still more than possible to <span class=
"emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">wipe out your entire
disk</i></span> with this installation! Please do not
accept the final confirmation request unless you have
adequately backed up any important data files.</p>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="IMPORTANT">
<blockquote class="IMPORTANT">
<p><b>Important:</b> These notes assume that you are
using the version of <a href=
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+4.6-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class=
"REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a>
supplied with the version of FreeBSD to which you
intend to upgrade. Using a mismatched version of <a
href=
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+4.6-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class=
"REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a> is
almost guaranteed to cause problems and has been known
to leave systems in an unusable state. The most
commonly made mistake in this regard is the use of an
old copy of <a href=
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+4.6-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class=
"REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a> from an
existing installation to upgrade to a newer version of
FreeBSD. This is <span class="emphasis"><i class=
"EMPHASIS">not</i></span> recommended.</p>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="SECT2">
<hr>
<h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN573">3.1
Introduction</a></h2>
<p>The upgrade procedure replaces distributions selected
by the user with those corresponding to the new FreeBSD
release. It preserves standard system configuration data,
as well as user data, installed packages and other
software.</p>
<p>Administrators contemplating an upgrade are encouraged
to study this section in its entirety before commencing
an upgrade. Failure to do so may result in a failed
upgrade or loss of data.</p>
<div class="SECT3">
<hr>
<h3 class="SECT3"><a name="AEN577">3.1.1 Upgrade
Overview</a></h3>
<p>Upgrading of a distribution is performed by
extracting the new version of the component over the
top of the previous version. Files belonging to the old
distribution are not deleted.</p>
<p>System configuration is preserved by retaining and
restoring the previous version of the following
files:</p>
<p><tt class="FILENAME">Xaccel.ini</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">XF86Config</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">adduser.conf</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">aliases</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">aliases.db</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">amd.map</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">crontab</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">csh.cshrc</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">csh.login</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">csh.logout</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">cvsupfile</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">dhclient.conf</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">disktab</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">dm.conf</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">dumpdates</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">exports</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">fbtab</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">fstab</tt>,
<tt class="FILENAME">ftpusers</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">gettytab</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">gnats</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">group</tt>,
<tt class="FILENAME">hosts</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">host.conf</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">hosts.allow</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">hosts.equiv</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">hosts.lpd</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">inetd.conf</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">kerberosIV</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">localtime</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">login.access</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">login.conf</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">mail</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">mail.rc</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">make.conf</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">manpath.config</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">master.passwd</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">modems</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">motd</tt>,
<tt class="FILENAME">namedb</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">networks</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">newsyslog.conf</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">nsmb.conf</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">pam.conf</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">passwd</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">periodic</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">ppp</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">printcap</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">profile</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">pwd.db</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">rc.conf</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">rc.conf.local</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">rc.firewall</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">rc.local</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">remote</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">resolv.conf</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">rmt</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">sendmail.cf</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">sendmail.cw</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">services</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">shells</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">skeykeys</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">spwd.db</tt>, <tt class="FILENAME">ssh</tt>,
<tt class="FILENAME">syslog.conf</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">ttys</tt>, <tt class=
"FILENAME">uucp</tt></p>
<p>The versions of these files which correspond to the
new version are moved to <tt class=
"FILENAME">/etc/upgrade/</tt>. The system administrator
may peruse these new versions and merge components as
desired. Note that many of these files are
interdependent, and the best merge procedure is to copy
all site-specific data from the current files into the
new.</p>
<p>During the upgrade procedure, the administrator is
prompted for a location into which all files from <tt
class="FILENAME">/etc/</tt> are saved. In the event
that local modifications have been made to other files,
they may be subsequently retrieved from this
location.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="SECT2">
<hr>
<h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN653">3.2 Procedure</a></h2>
<p>This section details the upgrade procedure. Particular
attention is given to items which substantially differ
from a normal installation.</p>
<div class="SECT3">
<hr>
<h3 class="SECT3"><a name="AEN656">3.2.1
Backup</a></h3>
<p>User data and system configuration should be backed
up before upgrading. While the upgrade procedure does
its best to prevent accidental mistakes, it is possible
to partially or completely destroy data and
configuration information.</p>
</div>
<div class="SECT3">
<hr>
<h3 class="SECT3"><a name="AEN659">3.2.2 Mount
Filesystems</a></h3>
<p>The disklabel editor is entered with the nominated
disk's filesystem devices listed. Prior to commencing
the upgrade, the administrator should make a note of
the device names and corresponding mountpoints. These
mountpoints should be entered here. <span class=
"emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">Do not</i></span>set the
``newfs flag'' for any filesystems, as this will cause
data loss.</p>
</div>
<div class="SECT3">
<hr>
<h3 class="SECT3"><a name="AEN664">3.2.3 Select
Distributions</a></h3>
<p>When selecting distributions, there are no
constraints on which must be selected. As a general
rule, the <tt class="LITERAL">bin</tt> distribution
should be selected for an update, and the <tt class=
"LITERAL">man</tt> distribution if manpages are already
installed. Other distributions may be selected beyond
those originally installed if the administrator wishes
to add additional functionality.</p>
</div>
<div class="SECT3">
<hr>
<h3 class="SECT3"><a name="FSTAB">3.2.4 After
Installation</a></h3>
<p>Once the installation procedure has completed, the
administrator is prompted to examine the new
configuration files. At this point, checks should be
made to ensure that the system configuration is valid.
In particular, the <tt class=
"FILENAME">/etc/rc.conf</tt> and <tt class=
"FILENAME">/etc/fstab</tt> files should be checked.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="SECT2">
<hr>
<h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN674">3.3 Upgrading from
Source Code</a></h2>
<p>Those interested in an upgrade method that allows more
flexibility and sophistication should take a look at <a
href=
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html"
target="_top">The Cutting Edge</a> in the FreeBSD
Handbook. This procedure involves rebuilding all of
FreeBSD from source code. It requires reliable network
connectivity, extra disk space, and time, but has
advantages for networks and other more complex
installations. This is roughly the same procedure as is
used for track the -STABLE or -CURRENT development
branches.</p>
<p><tt class="FILENAME">/usr/src/UPDATING</tt> contains
important information on updating a FreeBSD system from
source code. It lists various issues resulting from
changes in FreeBSD that may affect an upgrade.</p>
<p></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="SECT1">
<hr>
<h1 class="SECT1"><a name="TROUBLE">4
Troubleshooting</a></h1>
<div class="SECT2">
<h2 class="SECT2"><a name="REPAIRING">4.1 Repairing an
Existing FreeBSD Installation</a></h2>
<p>FreeBSD features a ``Fixit'' option in the top menu of
the boot floppy. To use it, you will also need either a
<tt class="FILENAME">fixit.flp</tt> image floppy,
generated in the same fashion as the boot floppy, or the
``live filesystem'' CDROM; typically the second CDROM in
a multi-disc FreeBSD distribution.</p>
<p>To invoke fixit, simply boot the <tt class=
"FILENAME">kern.flp</tt> floppy, choose the ``Fixit''
item and insert the fixit floppy or CDROM when asked. You
will then be placed into a shell with a wide variety of
commands available (in the <tt class=
"FILENAME">/stand</tt> and <tt class=
"FILENAME">/mnt2/stand</tt> directories) for checking,
repairing and examining file systems and their contents.
Some UNIX administration experience <span class=
"emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">is</i></span> required to
use the fixit option.</p>
</div>
<div class="SECT2">
<hr>
<h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN695">4.2 Common
Installation Problems, Q&amp;A</a></h2>
<div class="QANDASET">
<dl>
<dt>4.2.1. <a href="#Q4.2.1.">I go to boot from the
hard disk for the first time after installing
FreeBSD, the kernel loads and probes my hardware, but
stops with messages like:</a></dt>
<dt>4.2.2. <a href="#Q4.2.2.">I go to boot from the
hard disk for the first time after installing
FreeBSD, but the Boot Manager prompt just prints <tt
class="LITERAL">F?</tt> at the boot menu each time
but the boot won't go any further.</a></dt>
</dl>
<div class="QANDAENTRY">
<div class="QUESTION">
<p><a name="Q4.2.1."></a><b>4.2.1.</b> I go to boot
from the hard disk for the first time after
installing FreeBSD, the kernel loads and probes my
hardware, but stops with messages like:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
changing root device to wd1s1a panic: cannot mount root
</pre>
<p>What is wrong? What can I do?</p>
<p>What is this <tt class=
"LITERAL">bios_drive:interface(unit,partition)kernel_name</tt>
thing that is displayed with the boot help?</p>
</div>
<div class="ANSWER">
<p><b></b>There is a longstanding problem in the
case where the boot disk is not the first disk in
the system. The BIOS uses a different numbering
scheme to FreeBSD, and working out which numbers
correspond to which is difficult to get right.</p>
<p>In the case where the boot disk is not the first
disk in the system, FreeBSD can need some help
finding it. There are two common situations here,
and in both of these cases, you need to tell
FreeBSD where the root filesystem is. You do this
by specifying the BIOS disk number, the disk type
and the FreeBSD disk number for that type.</p>
<p>The first situation is where you have two IDE
disks, each configured as the master on their
respective IDE busses, and wish to boot FreeBSD
from the second disk. The BIOS sees these as disk 0
and disk 1, while FreeBSD sees them as <tt class=
"DEVICENAME">wd0</tt> and <tt class=
"DEVICENAME">wd2</tt>.</p>
<p>FreeBSD is on BIOS disk 1, of type <tt class=
"LITERAL">wd</tt> and the FreeBSD disk number is 2,
so you would say:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
<tt class="USERINPUT"><b>1:wd(2,a)kernel</b></tt>
</pre>
<p>Note that if you have a slave on the primary
bus, the above is not necessary (and is effectively
wrong).</p>
<p>The second situation involves booting from a
SCSI disk when you have one or more IDE disks in
the system. In this case, the FreeBSD disk number
is lower than the BIOS disk number. If you have two
IDE disks as well as the SCSI disk, the SCSI disk
is BIOS disk 2, type <tt class="LITERAL">da</tt>
and FreeBSD disk number 0, so you would say:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
<tt class="USERINPUT"><b>2:da(0,a)kernel</b></tt>
</pre>
<p>To tell FreeBSD that you want to boot from BIOS
disk 2, which is the first SCSI disk in the system.
If you only had one IDE disk, you would use '1:'
instead.</p>
<p>Once you have determined the correct values to
use, you can put the command exactly as you would
have typed it in the <tt class=
"FILENAME">/boot.config</tt> file using a standard
text editor. Unless instructed otherwise, FreeBSD
will use the contents of this file as the default
response to the <tt class="LITERAL">boot:</tt>
prompt.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="QANDAENTRY">
<div class="QUESTION">
<p><a name="Q4.2.2."></a><b>4.2.2.</b> I go to boot
from the hard disk for the first time after
installing FreeBSD, but the Boot Manager prompt
just prints <tt class="LITERAL">F?</tt> at the boot
menu each time but the boot won't go any
further.</p>
</div>
<div class="ANSWER">
<p><b></b>The hard disk geometry was set
incorrectly in the Partition editor when you
installed FreeBSD. Go back into the partition
editor and specify the actual geometry of your hard
disk. You must reinstall FreeBSD again from the
beginning with the correct geometry.</p>
<p>If you are failing entirely in figuring out the
correct geometry for your machine, here's a tip:
Install a small DOS partition at the beginning of
the disk and install FreeBSD after that. The
install program will see the DOS partition and try
to infer the correct geometry from it, which
usually works.</p>
<p>The following tip is no longer recommended, but
is left here for reference:</p>
<a name="AEN732"></a>
<blockquote class="BLOCKQUOTE">
<p>If you are setting up a truly dedicated
FreeBSD server or workstation where you don't
care for (future) compatibility with DOS, Linux
or another operating system, you've also got the
option to use the entire disk (`A' in the
partition editor), selecting the non-standard
option where FreeBSD occupies the entire disk
from the very first to the very last sector. This
will leave all geometry considerations aside, but
is somewhat limiting unless you're never going to
run anything other than FreeBSD on a disk.</p>
</blockquote>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="SECT2">
<hr>
<h2 class="SECT2"><a name="AEN734">4.3 Known Hardware
Problems, Q&amp;A</a></h2>
<div class="NOTE">
<blockquote class="NOTE">
<p><b>Note:</b> Please send hardware tips for this
section to Jordan K. Hubbard <tt class=
"EMAIL">&#60;<a href=
"mailto:jkh@FreeBSD.org">jkh@FreeBSD.org</a>&#62;</tt>.</p>
</blockquote>
</div>
<div class="QANDASET">
<dl>
<dt>4.3.1. <a href="#Q4.3.1.">The <span class=
"CITEREFENTRY"><span class=
"REFENTRYTITLE">mcd</span>(4)</span> driver keeps
thinking that it has found a device and this stops my
Intel EtherExpress card from working.</a></dt>
<dt>4.3.2. <a href="#Q4.3.2.">FreeBSD claims to
support the 3Com PCMCIA card, but my card isn't
recognized when it's plugged into my laptop.</a></dt>
<dt>4.3.3. <a href="#Q4.3.3.">FreeBSD finds my PCMCIA
network card, but no packets appear to be sent even
though it claims to be working.</a></dt>
<dt>4.3.4. <a href="#Q4.3.4.">The system finds my
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class=
"REFENTRYTITLE">ed</span>(4)</span> network card, but
I keep getting device timeout errors.</a></dt>
<dt>4.3.5. <a href="#Q4.3.5.">I have a
Matsushita/Panasonic drive but it isn't recognized by
the system.</a></dt>
<dt>4.3.6. <a href="#Q4.3.6.">I booted the install
floppy on my IBM ThinkPad (tm) laptop, and the
keyboard is all messed up.</a></dt>
<dt>4.3.7. <a href="#Q4.3.7.">When I try to boot the
install floppy, I see the following message and
nothing seems to be happening. I cannot enter
anything from the keyboard either.</a></dt>
<dt>4.3.8. <a href="#Q4.3.8.">I have a
Matsushita/Panasonic CR-522, a Matsushita/Panasonic
CR-523 or a TEAC CD55a drive, but it is not
recognized even when the correct I/O port is
set.</a></dt>
<dt>4.3.9. <a href="#Q4.3.9.">I'm trying to install
from a tape drive but all I get is something like
this on the screen:</a></dt>
<dt>4.3.10. <a href="#Q4.3.10.">I've installed
FreeBSD onto my system, but it hangs when booting
from the hard drive with the message:</a></dt>
<dt>4.3.11. <a href="#Q4.3.11.">My system can not
find my Intel EtherExpress 16 card.</a></dt>
<dt>4.3.12. <a href="#Q4.3.12.">When installing on an
EISA HP Netserver, my on-board AIC-7xxx SCSI
controller isn't detected.</a></dt>
<dt>4.3.13. <a href="#Q4.3.13.">I have a Panasonic
AL-N1 or Rios Chandler Pentium machine and I find
that the system hangs before ever getting into the
installation now.</a></dt>
<dt>4.3.14. <a href="#Q4.3.14.">I have this CMD640
IDE controller that is said to be broken.</a></dt>
<dt>4.3.15. <a href="#Q4.3.15.">On a Compaq Aero
notebook, I get the message ``No floppy devices
found! Please check ...'' when trying to install from
floppy.</a></dt>
<dt>4.3.16. <a href="#Q4.3.16.">When I go to boot my
Intel AL440LX (``Atlanta'') -based system from the
hard disk the first time, it stops with a <tt class=
"LITERAL">Read Error</tt> message.</a></dt>
<dt>4.3.17. <a href="#Q4.3.17.">When installing on an
Dell Poweredge XE, Dell proprietary RAID controller
DSA (Dell SCSI Array) isn't recognized.</a></dt>
<dt>4.3.18. <a href="#Q4.3.18.">My Ethernet adapter
is detected as an AMD PCnet-FAST (or similar) but it
doesn't work. (Eg. onboard Ethernet on IBM Netfinity
5xxx or 7xxx)</a></dt>
<dt>4.3.19. <a href="#Q4.3.19.">I have an IBM
EtherJet PCI card, it is detected by the <span class=
"CITEREFENTRY"><span class=
"REFENTRYTITLE">fxp</span>(4)</span> driver
correctly, but the lights on the card don't come on
and it doesn't connect to the network.</a></dt>
<dt>4.3.20. <a href="#Q4.3.20.">When I configure the
network during installation on an IBM Netfinity 3500,
the system freezes.</a></dt>
<dt>4.3.21. <a href="#Q4.3.21.">When I install onto a
drive managed by a Mylex PCI RAID controller, the
system fails to boot (eg. with a <tt class=
"LITERAL">read error</tt> message).</a></dt>
</dl>
<div class="QANDAENTRY">
<div class="QUESTION">
<p><a name="Q4.3.1."></a><b>4.3.1.</b> The <span
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class=
"REFENTRYTITLE">mcd</span>(4)</span> driver keeps
thinking that it has found a device and this stops
my Intel EtherExpress card from working.</p>
</div>
<div class="ANSWER">
<p><b></b>Use the UserConfig utility (see <tt
class="FILENAME">HARDWARE.TXT</tt>) and disable the
probing of the <tt class="DEVICENAME">mcd0</tt> and
<tt class="DEVICENAME">mcd1</tt> devices. Generally
speaking, you should only leave the devices that
you will be using enabled in your kernel.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="QANDAENTRY">
<div class="QUESTION">
<p><a name="Q4.3.2."></a><b>4.3.2.</b> FreeBSD
claims to support the 3Com PCMCIA card, but my card
isn't recognized when it's plugged into my
laptop.</p>
</div>
<div class="ANSWER">
<p><b></b>There are a couple of possible problems.
First of all, FreeBSD does not support
multi-function cards, so if you have a combo
Ethernet/modem card (such as the 3C562), it won't
work. The default driver for the 3C589 card was
written just like all of the other drivers in
FreeBSD, and depend on the card's own configuration
data stored in NVRAM to work. You must correctly
configure FreeBSD's driver to match the IRQ, port,
and IOMEM stored in NVRAM.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the only program capable of
reading them is the 3COM supplied DOS program. This
program must be run on a absolutely clean system
(no other drivers must be running), and the program
will whine about CARD-Services not being found, but
it will continue. This is necessary to read the
NVRAM values. You want to know the IRQ, port, and
IOMEM values (the latter is called the CIS tuple by
3COM). The first two can be set in the program, the
third is un-settable, and can only be read. Once
you have these values, set them in UserConfig and
your card will be recognized.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="QANDAENTRY">
<div class="QUESTION">
<p><a name="Q4.3.3."></a><b>4.3.3.</b> FreeBSD
finds my PCMCIA network card, but no packets appear
to be sent even though it claims to be working.</p>
</div>
<div class="ANSWER">
<p><b></b>Many PCMCIA cards have the ability to use
either the 10-Base2 (BNC) or 10-BaseT connectors
for connecting to the network. The driver is unable
to ``auto-select'' the correct connector, so you
must tell it which connector to use. In order to
switch between the two connectors, the link flags
must be set. Depending on the model of the card,
<tt class="OPTION">-link0 link1</tt> or <tt class=
"OPTION">-link0 -link1</tt> will choose the correct
network connector. You can set these in <a href=
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+4.6-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class=
"REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a> by
using the <tt class="LITERAL">Extra options to
ifconfig:</tt> field in the network setup
screen.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="QANDAENTRY">
<div class="QUESTION">
<p><a name="Q4.3.4."></a><b>4.3.4.</b> The system
finds my <span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class=
"REFENTRYTITLE">ed</span>(4)</span> network card,
but I keep getting device timeout errors.</p>
</div>
<div class="ANSWER">
<p><b></b>Your card is probably on a different IRQ
from what is specified in the kernel configuration.
The ed driver does not use the `soft' configuration
by default (values entered using EZSETUP in DOS),
but it will use the software configuration if you
specify <tt class="LITERAL">?</tt> in the IRQ field
of your kernel config file.</p>
<p>Either move the jumper on the card to a hard
configuration setting (altering the kernel settings
if necessary), or specify the IRQ as <tt class=
"LITERAL">-1</tt> in UserConfig or <tt class=
"LITERAL">?</tt> in your kernel config file. This
will tell the kernel to use the soft
configuration.</p>
<p>Another possibility is that your card is at IRQ
9, which is shared by IRQ 2 and frequently a cause
of problems (especially when you have a VGA card
using IRQ 2!). You should not use IRQ 2 or 9 if at
all possible.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="QANDAENTRY">
<div class="QUESTION">
<p><a name="Q4.3.5."></a><b>4.3.5.</b> I have a
Matsushita/Panasonic drive but it isn't recognized
by the system.</p>
</div>
<div class="ANSWER">
<p><b></b>Make certain that the I/O port that the
<a href=
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=matcd&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+4.6-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class=
"REFENTRYTITLE">matcd</span>(4)</span></a> driver
is set to is correct for the host interface card
you have. (Some SoundBlaster DOS drivers report a
hardware I/O port address for the CD-ROM interface
that is 0x10 lower than it really is.)</p>
<p>If you are unable to determine the settings for
the card by examining the board or documentation,
you can use UserConfig to change the 'port' address
(I/O port) to -1 and start the system. This setting
causes the driver to look at a number of I/O ports
that various manufacturers use for their
Matsushita/Panasonic/Creative CD-ROM interfaces.
Once the driver locates the address, you should run
UserConfig again and specify the correct address.
Leaving the 'port' parameter set to -1 increases
the amount of time that it takes the system to
boot, and this could interfere with other
devices.</p>
<p>The double-speed Matsushita CR-562 and CR-563
are the only drives that are supported.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="QANDAENTRY">
<div class="QUESTION">
<p><a name="Q4.3.6."></a><b>4.3.6.</b> I booted the
install floppy on my IBM ThinkPad (tm) laptop, and
the keyboard is all messed up.</p>
</div>
<div class="ANSWER">
<p><b></b>Older IBM laptops use a non-standard
keyboard controller, so you must tell the keyboard
driver (atkbd0) to go into a special mode which
works on the ThinkPads. Change the atkbd0 'Flags'
to 0x4 in UserConfig and it should work fine. (Look
in the Input Menu for 'Keyboard'.)</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="QANDAENTRY">
<div class="QUESTION">
<p><a name="Q4.3.7."></a><b>4.3.7.</b> When I try
to boot the install floppy, I see the following
message and nothing seems to be happening. I cannot
enter anything from the keyboard either.</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
Keyboard: no
</pre>
</div>
<div class="ANSWER">
<p><b></b>Due to lack of space, full support for
old XT/AT (84-key) keyboards is no longer available
in the bootblocks. Some notebook computers may also
have this type of keyboard. If you are still using
this kind of hardware, you will see the above
message appears when you boot from the CD-ROM or an
install floppy.</p>
<p>As soon as you see this message, hit the space
bar, and you will see the prompt:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
&#62;&#62; FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
Default: x:xx(x,x)/boot/loader
boot:
</pre>
<p>Then enter <tt class=
"USERINPUT"><b>-Dh</b></tt>, and things should
proceed normally.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="QANDAENTRY">
<div class="QUESTION">
<p><a name="Q4.3.8."></a><b>4.3.8.</b> I have a
Matsushita/Panasonic CR-522, a Matsushita/Panasonic
CR-523 or a TEAC CD55a drive, but it is not
recognized even when the correct I/O port is
set.</p>
</div>
<div class="ANSWER">
<p><b></b>These CD-ROM drives are currently not
supported by FreeBSD. The command sets for these
drives are not compatible with the double-speed
CR-562 and CR-563 drives.</p>
<p>The single-speed CR-522 and CR-523 drives can be
identified by their use of a CD-caddy.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="QANDAENTRY">
<div class="QUESTION">
<p><a name="Q4.3.9."></a><b>4.3.9.</b> I'm trying
to install from a tape drive but all I get is
something like this on the screen:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
sa0(aha0:1:0) NOT READY csi 40,0,0,0
</pre>
</div>
<div class="ANSWER">
<p><b></b>There's a limitation in the current <a
href=
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+4.6-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class=
"REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a>
that the tape <span class="emphasis"><i class=
"EMPHASIS">must</i></span> be in the drive while <a
href=
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysinstall&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+4.6-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class=
"REFENTRYTITLE">sysinstall</span>(8)</span></a> is
started or it won't be detected. Try again with the
tape in the drive the whole time.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="QANDAENTRY">
<div class="QUESTION">
<p><a name="Q4.3.10."></a><b>4.3.10.</b> I've
installed FreeBSD onto my system, but it hangs when
booting from the hard drive with the message:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
Changing root to /dev/da0a
</pre>
</div>
<div class="ANSWER">
<p><b></b>his problem may occur in a system with a
3com 3c509 Ethernet adapter. The <a href=
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ep&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+4.6-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class=
"REFENTRYTITLE">ep</span>(4)</span></a> device
driver appears to be sensitive to probes for other
devices that also use address 0x300. Boot your
FreeBSD system by power cycling the machine (turn
off and on). At the <tt class="LITERAL">Boot:</tt>
prompt specify the <tt class="OPTION">-c</tt>. This
will invoke UserConfig (see <a href=
"#REPAIRING">Section 4.1</a> above). Use the <tt
class="LITERAL">disable</tt> command to disable the
device probes for all devices at address 0x300
except the ep0 driver. On exit, your machine should
successfully boot FreeBSD.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="QANDAENTRY">
<div class="QUESTION">
<p><a name="Q4.3.11."></a><b>4.3.11.</b> My system
can not find my Intel EtherExpress 16 card.</p>
</div>
<div class="ANSWER">
<p><b></b>You must set your Intel EtherExpress 16
card to be memory mapped at address 0xD0000, and
set the amount of mapped memory to 32K using the
Intel supplied <tt class=
"FILENAME">softset.exe</tt> program.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="QANDAENTRY">
<div class="QUESTION">
<p><a name="Q4.3.12."></a><b>4.3.12.</b> When
installing on an EISA HP Netserver, my on-board
AIC-7xxx SCSI controller isn't detected.</p>
</div>
<div class="ANSWER">
<p><b></b>This is a known problem, and will
hopefully be fixed in the future. In order to get
your system installed at all, boot with the <tt
class="OPTION">-c</tt> option into UserConfig, but
<span class="emphasis"><i class=
"EMPHASIS">don't</i></span> use the pretty visual
mode but the plain old CLI mode. Type:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
<tt class="USERINPUT"><b>eisa 12</b></tt>
<tt class="USERINPUT"><b>quit</b></tt>
</pre>
<p>at the prompt. (Instead of `quit', you might
also type `visual', and continue the rest of the
configuration session in visual mode.) While it's
recommended to compile a custom kernel, dset now
also understands to save this value.</p>
<p>Refer to the FAQ topic 3.16 for an explanation
of the problem, and for how to continue. Remember
that you can find the FAQ on your local system in
/usr/share/doc/FAQ, provided you have installed the
`doc' distribution.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="QANDAENTRY">
<div class="QUESTION">
<p><a name="Q4.3.13."></a><b>4.3.13.</b> I have a
Panasonic AL-N1 or Rios Chandler Pentium machine
and I find that the system hangs before ever
getting into the installation now.</p>
</div>
<div class="ANSWER">
<p><b></b>Your machine doesn't like the new <tt
class="LITERAL">i586_copyout</tt> and <tt class=
"LITERAL">i586_copyin</tt> code for some reason. To
disable this, boot the installation boot floppy and
when it comes to the very first menu (the choice to
drop into kernel UserConfig mode or not) choose the
command-line interface (``expert mode'') version
and type the following at it:</p>
<pre class="SCREEN">
<tt class="USERINPUT"><b>flags npx0 1</b></tt>
</pre>
<p>Then proceed normally to boot. This will be
saved into your kernel, so you only need to do it
once.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="QANDAENTRY">
<div class="QUESTION">
<p><a name="Q4.3.14."></a><b>4.3.14.</b> I have
this CMD640 IDE controller that is said to be
broken.</p>
</div>
<div class="ANSWER">
<p><b></b>Yes, it is. FreeBSD does not support this
controller except through the legacy wdc
driver.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="QANDAENTRY">
<div class="QUESTION">
<p><a name="Q4.3.15."></a><b>4.3.15.</b> On a
Compaq Aero notebook, I get the message ``No floppy
devices found! Please check ...'' when trying to
install from floppy.</p>
</div>
<div class="ANSWER">
<p><b></b>With Compaq being always a little
different from other systems, they do not announce
their floppy drive in the CMOS RAM of an Aero
notebook. Therefore, the floppy disk driver assumes
there is no drive configured. Go to the UserConfig
screen, and set the Flags value of the fdc0 device
to 0x1. This pretends the existence of the first
floppy drive (as a 1.44 MB drive) to the driver
without asking the CMOS at all.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="QANDAENTRY">
<div class="QUESTION">
<p><a name="Q4.3.16."></a><b>4.3.16.</b> When I go
to boot my Intel AL440LX (``Atlanta'') -based
system from the hard disk the first time, it stops
with a <tt class="LITERAL">Read Error</tt>
message.</p>
</div>
<div class="ANSWER">
<p><b></b>There appears to be a bug in the BIOS on
at least some of these boards, this bug results in
the FreeBSD bootloader thinking that it is booting
from a floppy disk. This is only a problem if you
are not using the BootEasy boot manager. Slice the
disk in ``compatible''mode and install BootEasy
during the FreeBSD installation to avoid the bug,
or upgrade the BIOS (see Intel's website for
details).</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="QANDAENTRY">
<div class="QUESTION">
<p><a name="Q4.3.17."></a><b>4.3.17.</b> When
installing on an Dell Poweredge XE, Dell
proprietary RAID controller DSA (Dell SCSI Array)
isn't recognized.</p>
</div>
<div class="ANSWER">
<p><b></b>Configure the DSA to use AHA-1540
emulation using EISA configuration utility. After
that FreeBSD detects the DSA as an Adaptec AHA-1540
SCSI controller, with irq 11 and port 340. Under
emulation mode system will use DSA RAID disks, but
you cannot use DSA-specific features such as
watching RAID health.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="QANDAENTRY">
<div class="QUESTION">
<p><a name="Q4.3.18."></a><b>4.3.18.</b> My
Ethernet adapter is detected as an AMD PCnet-FAST
(or similar) but it doesn't work. (Eg. onboard
Ethernet on IBM Netfinity 5xxx or 7xxx)</p>
</div>
<div class="ANSWER">
<p><b></b>The <a href=
"http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=lnc&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+4.6-RELEASE">
<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class=
"REFENTRYTITLE">lnc</span>(4)</span></a> driver is
currently faulty, and will often not work correctly
with the PCnet-FAST and PCnet-FAST+. You need to
install a different Ethernet adapter.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="QANDAENTRY">
<div class="QUESTION">
<p><a name="Q4.3.19."></a><b>4.3.19.</b> I have an
IBM EtherJet PCI card, it is detected by the <span
class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class=
"REFENTRYTITLE">fxp</span>(4)</span> driver
correctly, but the lights on the card don't come on
and it doesn't connect to the network.</p>
</div>
<div class="ANSWER">
<p><b></b>We don't understand why this happens.
Neither do IBM (we asked them). The card is a
standard Intel EtherExpress Pro/100 with an IBM
label on it, and these cards normally work just
fine. You may see these symptoms only in some IBM
Netfinity servers. The only solution is to install
a different Ethernet adapter.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="QANDAENTRY">
<div class="QUESTION">
<p><a name="Q4.3.20."></a><b>4.3.20.</b> When I
configure the network during installation on an IBM
Netfinity 3500, the system freezes.</p>
</div>
<div class="ANSWER">
<p><b></b>There is a problem with the onboard
Ethernet in the Netfinity 3500 which we have not
been able to identify at this time. It may be
related to the SMP features of the system being
misconfigured. You will have to install another
Ethernet adapter and avoid attempting to configure
the onboard adapter at any time.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="QANDAENTRY">
<div class="QUESTION">
<p><a name="Q4.3.21."></a><b>4.3.21.</b> When I
install onto a drive managed by a Mylex PCI RAID
controller, the system fails to boot (eg. with a
<tt class="LITERAL">read error</tt> message).</p>
</div>
<div class="ANSWER">
<p><b></b>There is a bug in the Mylex driver which
results in it ignoring the ``8GB'' geometry mode
setting in the BIOS. Use the 2GB mode instead.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
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