spcargt Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 Hey guys, I dug out my old Compaq 333mhz with 96mb ram and burned the FreeBSD 4.7 ISO. Well, I went through the entire installation up until it tried to install the X server...which failed. This is fine by me as I won't be using X, but I thought I should mention that incase the installation itself needed to do something after that. Now, I will be using this for one purpose and one purpose only...a small dev box that will reside on my home network from which I can develop PHP/mySQL on in a linux server environment. Unfortunately, I do not have a spare LAN card (though I can get one if the following won't work). I have a USB Belkin Direct Connect device. Do you think FreeBSD would recognize this as a network device and allow me to configure it? Also, I can't shut this thing down! If I type shutdown now, it'll begin the shutdown but then ask for the location of the shell or hit return for /bin/sh. So if I hit return, it just goes back to the prompt (#). I've found a bad way around this...ctrl+alt+del then turn off the machine before it gets to FreeBSD. Yikes is right. :blush: Anyway, any help would be appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yzero Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 check http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.7R/hardw...e-i386.html#USB see if it's in there i guess and type halt to shut it down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Almighty1 Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 Not sure about your USB issue but to shutdown, do shutdown -r now which will reboot so just turn off manually at the POST screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spcargt Posted December 5, 2002 Author Share Posted December 5, 2002 Thanks, halt worked. I haven't tried shutdown -r but I'll give it a shot. Well as far as I know FreeBSD didn't recognize the USB device as a network device. I wonder if there's another distro that'll be able to recognize it? I realize that transfer would most likely be pretty slow but I would like to give this Belkin thing some use. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hummer Posted December 5, 2002 Share Posted December 5, 2002 i've never used freebsd but if you do shutdown -h (works in linux) will turn the system off.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mezz Posted December 5, 2002 Share Posted December 5, 2002 shutdown -r now = reboot shutdown -h now = halt the system, then turn off the power by manual. fastboot = reboot If you want to do the shutdown and turn off the box by automatic, then check -> http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread...s=&threadid=886 .. Be sure to have your motherboard support and will have to recompile your kernel as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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