From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 14 5:16:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.mutteri.org (cs168232.pp.htv.fi [213.243.168.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B50837B408 for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 05:16:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lasse@mutteri.org) Received: from ns1 (ns1 [213.243.168.232]) by mail.mutteri.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA5E448D4E for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:16:05 +0300 (EEST) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:16:05 +0300 (EEST) From: Lasse Kaislaniemi To: Subject: Re: doing first time network install In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > My cable modem is DHCP, and they didn't supply me with *any* information > regarding the IP of the router, etc. Seems it all "just works" in Windows > 2000. > > My question is "What pieces of information will the installation program > need to get to the FTP server and begin the installation?" Don't worry, it will work fine. Installation program can fetch an IP and other needed information (default gateway, netmask, etc.) via DHCP. During installation, you can select an installation media (which, in this case, is FTP). After then it will ask you to configure network interface by hand or to try a DHCP configuration. The only thing you need to know, is the FTP server where from you want to download the packages. Installation program can give you a list where you can select a one, so no problems with that neither. -- Lasse Kaislaniemi / lasse@mutteri.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message