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Date:      Fri, 01 Aug 1997 13:55:52 -0400
From:      Tod Luginbuhl <tod@science-guy.npt.nuwc.navy.mil>
To:        alanna@plato.virgil.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Re: installing
Message-ID:  <199708011755.NAA17993@science-guy.npt.nuwc.navy.mil>

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>alanna asked:
> > is there any way to install FreeBSD via ftp over an ethernet
> > connection because I called Walnut Creek and they told me the only
> > way to do it was through a modem.....
> > 
> > thanks.....
>

Nick Thille responed...
>
>Absolutely.  As you go through the installation program it should
>offer you the choice of using the ethernet interface on your PC (as
>long as the kernel has a driver for it and you didn't disable it when
>you were resolving conflicts).
>
>It will then ask you for configuration information for the interface
>and go get the distribution.  Works great.
>

Alanna,

I suggest you look at the installation instructions on the FreeBSD
website:  http://www.freebsd.org.  It may save you some time and 
pain.  

Tod

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Tod Luginbuhl                             email:  t.e.luginbuhl@ieee.org
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