Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 12:47:40 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Glenn Johnson <glenn@andover.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems accessing ftp site for installation. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980303124306.20872D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <34F9AD11.6DA8@andover.co.uk>
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On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, Glenn Johnson wrote: > I have downloaded and constructed a FREEBSD disk maker, made a disk and > started to install FREEBSD on one of my machines. I get all the way > through the installation, but when it comes to accessing the freebsd.org > FTP site, it cannot conenct - it seems to hang up when adding default > route. This implies that the network information given for your workstation is incorrect. Hit ALT-F2 and see what's up. > Does FREEBSD need rights to program a CISCO router? We don't have > access to our router, as it is property of UUNET PIPEX. You shouldn't need to access your router's configuration. You don't have the password anyway, do you? :-) > I have also tried to download the freebsd 2.2.5 release section of your > ftp site and made a local ftp server here using WARFTP and tried to > access like that. This works fine, apart from it can't seem to see some > of the directory structure! Could you tell me how I should construct > the dir's and where I should have files located please. Could you also > tell me how much disk space I would need. I dunno offhand; our mirror is 43MB and is pretty bare-bones. > Your answers are much appreciated. Congratulations on such a great > project - I have been looking to use UNIX for quite a while - this seems > an excellent opportunity to indulge!! Thanks and enjoy! Let us know if you have any questions, and don't forget to RTFM! Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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