Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 20:25:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: matt quelch <mattq@techies.co.uk> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Ref: freebsd Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960920202416.349Q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <c=GB%a=_%p=Techies%l=EXCHANGE-960920102304Z-288@exchange.pipex.net>
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On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, matt quelch wrote: > I hope you dont mind me emailing you direct but i urgently need > assistance on installing freebsd over ftp. > I have a 500md fdisked drive. I boot from the 2.1.5 disk i have created, > select novice etc...then install method ftp. > I set my host name to br ns0 domain is techies.co.uk name server is a > remote dns server from uunet pipex. The gateway is my leased line router > 64k. > It gets as far as trying to log in as ftp user then sits there and does > nothing.? Hm. What ftp server are you trying? Can you reach it OK from another machine on the same local net? host name should be fully qualified, ie, ns0.techies.co.uk. DNS server should have an IP address not a name. (Sorry, you can't lookup the name server to find the IP address for the name server.) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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