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| author | Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-12-26 21:53:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-12-26 21:53:11 +0000 |
| commit | f52a35b581cf0f8f623c2f67f59e2d46a02bf957 (patch) | |
| tree | 05c486e5188e88b555c779b5a2ce3d9ad9fe9451 /usr.sbin/sysinstall/help/network_device.hlp | |
| parent | 43d7fd0390422dd4e13f3d388a6708e4f145d345 (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/sysinstall/help/network_device.hlp | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/sysinstall/help/network_device.hlp b/usr.sbin/sysinstall/help/network_device.hlp index 81bf6f285f1fa..7151e91ba9070 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/sysinstall/help/network_device.hlp +++ b/usr.sbin/sysinstall/help/network_device.hlp @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ You can do network installations over 3 types of communications links: Serial port: SLIP / PPP Parallel port: PLIP (laplink cable) - Ethernet: A standard ethernet controller (includes some + Ethernet: A standard Ethernet controller (includes some PCMCIA networking cards). SLIP support is rather primitive and limited primarily to directly @@ -35,11 +35,11 @@ parallel port cable. The data rate over the parallel port is much higher than what is typically possible over a serial line, and speeds of up to 50KB/sec are not uncommon. -Finally, for the fastest possible network installation, an ethernet +Finally, for the fastest possible network installation, an Ethernet adaptor is always a good choice! FreeBSD supports most common PC -ethernet cards, a table of which is provided in the FreeBSD Hardware +Ethernet cards, a table of which is provided in the FreeBSD Hardware Guide (see the Documentation menu on the boot floppy). If you are -using one of the supported PCMCIA ethernet cards, also be sure that +using one of the supported PCMCIA Ethernet cards, also be sure that it's plugged in _before_ the laptop is powered on! FreeBSD does not, unfortunately, currently support "hot insertion" of PCMCIA cards. @@ -52,5 +52,5 @@ 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 do not know the answers to all or most of these questions then you should really probably talk to your system administrator _first_ before trying this -type of installation! Chosing the wrong IP address on a busy network +type of installation! Choosing the wrong IP address on a busy network will NOT make you popular with your systems administrator! :-) |
