From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 12 13: 1:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B7BF15DC5 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 13:01:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01202; Wed, 12 May 1999 13:01:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 13:01:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Doug Poland Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP Install over LAN problem In-Reply-To: <000001be988b$e89ef440$7a01140a@egypt> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 7 May 1999, Doug Poland wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm trying to install 3.1-RELEASE across my home network. This is what > I've > done... > > Host: > 1. 3.1-RELEASE CD-ROM is mounted on 1.1.1.1 on /cdrom ^^^^^^^ Umm.... you shouldn't use this. Use 10.x.x.x or 192.168.x.x. > 2. used vipw to add ftp:*:99:99:FTP:/cdrom:/sbin/nologin to /etc/passwd > 3. NIC is running on 1.1.1.1 > 4. linked /cdrom to /var/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/3.1-RELEASE > > Client: > 1. booted off two floppies > 2. choose FTP as media (URL ftp://1.1.1.1/pub/FreeBSD) > 3. choose my 3COM 3C509 NIC as interface ( ep0 ) > 4. Network config as follows: > Host: 1.1.1.1 Domain: 1.1.1 ^^^^^^^ this is a real name, not an IP > Gateway: NO Name Server: ^^ set this to the IP of the remote server > IP Address: 1.1.1.2 Netmask: 255.255.0.0 > > The error message I get is: > > Couldn't extract the following distributions. This may > be because they were not available on the installation > media you've choosen: You must have a name server running as well. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message