From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jun 6 21: 9:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from badger.apex.net (badger.apex.net [209.250.48.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B83A37B403 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 21:09:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from quinton@apex.net) Received: (qmail 12960607 invoked by uid 7770); 7 Jun 2001 04:07:50 -0000 Received: from pm3-8-20.apex.net (HELO window) (209.250.41.180) by badger.apex.net with SMTP; 7 Jun 2001 04:07:50 -0000 From: "Charley" To: Subject: Is it assumed that I know this? Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 23:15:27 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Every time I've tried to install FreeBSD I get stopped by these grey boxes with terms like Host: Domain: IPv4 Gateway: Name server: IPv4 Address: Netmask: Extra options to ifconfig: Is it assumed that I know what to type in here? I ask my Internet Service Provider for these names and numbers but he just said "You don't need those for anything, what's FreeBSD anyway?" I can't find anything clearly stated in the documentation that will help me understand the differences between these names and numbers. CQ from Kentucky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message