Agp0 in 5.2.1 etcetera - now no network.

[Eric Toll]

Hello list!
 
I had a *hell* of a time trying to get FreeBSD 5.2.1 installed on a Netserver E60.  PII 450 scsi
 
During the agp0 probe the system would lock up tight.
 
Here's what I did.  Made some floppies, (since they don't have AGP support on them)
Booted System, went thru the whole install and then right before Exiting Install, I ran an Emergency Shell on TTY4.
 
Then I FTP'd the gunziped kernel file into /boot/kernel.  Then rebooted system.
 
System came up fine (no lockup)  but now I have no ethernet, yet the std boot and mfsroot floppies do have an Intel nic driver on them
that works, after all I used the floppy boot discs to FTP the floppy kernel onto my scsi HD.
 
Geesh, what an ordeal. (If you didn't know how to go about it as I didn't)
 
What am I doing wrong?  Is this the wrong way?  I tried to let the HD boot up to the loader prompt after the 5.2.1 install and then set currdev=/dev/fd0
and then do a load kernel (this did not work), and then to a setcurrdev=<back to my HD> so I can boot from it but no luck.
 
Anyway my machine is up but it's pretty useless without Network...
 
 
TIA
Eric