Re: SPARCbook 3GX install problem: cannot access binary distribution sets

Thanks.  It was indeed switching to 10baseT when link was present and I
brought up the interface.  when I specified 10base5, I was able to install.

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Miod Vallat <[email protected]> wrote:

> [...]
> > Next I booted from the floppy and attemped to configure the ethernet
> > interface via dhcp.  this failed with many broadcasts for DHCP DISCOVER
> > I dropped to the shell and assigned it a static IP of 192.168.0.56 based
> on
> > the subnet which should have worked.  I verified that this IP was not
> taken.
> >
> > it still was not able to ping the gateway at 192.168.0.1 which other
> > machines on the network were able to do.
>
> When configuring network on SPARCbook systems, you need to explicitely
> force media as 10base5 (ifconfig le0 media 10base5).
>
> Miod