Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 20:31:50 +0200 From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se> To: "John H. Waaser" <waas@mindspring.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing Free BSD over the Internet Message-ID: <357ADC96.CD892C53@partitur.se> References: <01bd921f$e1348940$0a0d56d1@mainoffice>
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> John H. Waaser wrote: > > > I attempted to install a copy of Free BSD on a new computer the other > night, and got as far as the NETWORK CONFIGURATION screen. > > I called my ISP, MINDSPRING, who said that this was a non-supported > operating system, and they could not help me. > > The screen comes up and asks for the following: > > HOST: > DOMAIN > > GATEWAY NAME > SERVER > > Configuration for interface lp0 > > IP Address Net > Mask > > Extra options: > > I assumed that the host should be ftp.freebsd.org, but my ISP said it > should be ftp.mindspring.com. > Domain appears to be filled in automatically from the information in > Host. > The above configuration is for your machine, not the ftp server. I.e. host is your own machine's name (whatever you choose, I guess, if you're not ion a LAN). Nameserver is correct as you state it. For your ethernet interface (which is not what you wan't to use for the installation), I suggest the private address 192.168.0.1 and netmask 255.255.255.0. Good luck in installing an external modem (which will probably work better than the internal one). > > I partitioned the drive with 800 MB root--at first I tried 200 MB and > it would not accept that. Then I put in 500 MB Swap, an 800 MB /usr, > and another 341 MB to finish the drive off. I requested the > X-Developer installation from the FTP Server, and specified the > Primary FTP server. > 800 M root sounds like a lot! about a hundred should suffuicient, but it depends on what you wan't to do with the system, of course. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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