Hi David, > I booted the install disc and got it mostly done, but I'm having > difficulty setting up TCP/IP. The config script detects the laptops > onboard ethernet port (Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC) > and attempts to connect to my router's DHCP server and appears to hang > there...
You can set up the networking manually, but I do really recommend to do a plain offline install - which is also a lot faster. You can configure your network manually later, it is not strictly needed for installation. After all, DOS is no Ubuntu ;-). Just make sure you unselect the network related packages: "I would recommend to install without network, see: http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?n=FdDocEn.FdInstall You can find a list of internet-using packages here: http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?n=FdDocEn.FdDependencies ..." For manual setup, you edit the wattcp.cfg file on the installed system later :-). There is an interactive setup thing in the installer, but there you cannot enter a DNS server IP, so it is kind of pointless? I hope Blair Campbell will provide a howto for fixing the interactive setup and for manual edit of wattcp.cfg, although the latter is semi self explaining ;-). > Since the DHCP client never finishes, the install script can't > go to the next thing to do. I was hoping I could specify the IPs > and netmask manually to avoid the DHCP client's hanging. > Can FreeDOS print to a TCP/IP connected LPR server? Dunno, many Linux packages were ported to DOS with the DJGPP GNU C compiler and C libraries for DOS. For example there is a DOS version of the command line tool smbclient for Samba. I think it was on mik.mkw.ru/dos-stuff/ :-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
