Problems Installing FreeBSD-PPC

[David Leimbach]

On Mar 8, 2004, at 8:34 AM, Peter Larkowski wrote:

> Well, can you mount the exported nfs dir from anything else?  (The imac
> running osx, or a linux or freebsd pc someplace?)  That would prove the
> server works...

I gave up on it months ago... neither system exists and it would be too 
much
work at the moment to reconfigure everything.

I remember being able to mount the NFS from other machines though...It's
not a difficult thing to setup... The TFTP is even more difficult IMO. 
:)

Dave
>
> -p
>
>
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, David Leimbach wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 08:26:47 -0600
>> From: David Leimbach <leimy2k at mac.com>
>> To: David S. Besade <webmaster at machowto.com>
>> Cc: freebsd-ppc at freebsd.org
>> Subject: Re: Problems Installing FreeBSD-PPC
>>
>>>
>>> Now here lays the problem, I get to <mountroot> and I type NFS, and 
>>> it
>>> spits
>>> out:
>>>
>>> Mounting root from nfs
>>> Nfs_diskless: no interface
>>> Root mount failed: -1
>>>
>>
>> This is why I started burning CD's back months ago... I also never 
>> made
>> this work.
>>
>> I thought perhaps the network driver was the interface that didn't
>> exist?
>>
>>>
>>> I have come so far, when so many said this was impossible to do Mac 
>>> to
>>> Mac,
>>> I disagreed and I am so close. Can someone help me out here? The iMac
>>> is a
>>> 400Mhz G3, 512MB RAM, 40GB IDE HDD, DVD Slot Loading Optical Drive,
>>> firewire, USB, etc ATI Rage 128 AGP (onboard) it is the first gen 
>>> slot
>>> loading machine.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Heh... I had the same crash on FreeBSD -> Mac so... it's just about as
>> possible as that it
>> seems.
>>
>> I don't remember being told mac->mac is impossible.
>>
>>> P.S. Thanks for all who pointed me in the right direction
>>>
>>> ~Regards
>>> Dave
>>>
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