On Saturday 10 May 2008, constantine wrote:
Dear FreeBSD Aficionados,
I am trying to install FreeBSD in my notebook through an external USB
CD-ROM. While the installation manager runs fine, after choosing the
installation media it says it cannot mount /dev/acd0 (which refers to
the notebook's built-in broken cdrom).
What could I do?
As an alternative I tried installing through FTP. The problem is that
my network configuration has to be as such (with ip aliasing and some
static routes):
defaultrouter=192.168.1.1
static_routes=beastie puffy
route_beastie=-net 10.0.0.0/8 10.96.66.254
route_puffy=-net 10.96.66.253/32 10.96.66.2
hostname=payaso.costis.name
ifconfig_rl0=inet 10.96.66.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
ifconfig_rl0_alias0=inet 192.168.1.36 netmask 255.255.255.0
... and the holographic emergency shell is somewhat hostile to running
ifconfig/route: (command: not found)
My DNS server is 10.96.66.1
Thank you very much in advance for any insights!...
Yours,
Constantine Tsardounis
http://costis.name
You could try the livefs CD, which should have everything you need to get the
network working. I suppose you could then install from FTP using sysinstall.
If that doesn't work you could install FreeBSD on a USB (flash?) disk, boot
from it, then basically copy the whole USB disk to the HDD of your laptop, or
something like that.
Good Luck!
Pieter de Goeje
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