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Date:      Mon, 30 Mar 1998 00:40:26 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        IP Shears <ips@b022.aone.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Novice Install over FTP network
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980330003924.23543G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199803260035.LAA24157@mail.mel.aone.net.au>

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On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, IP Shears wrote:

> Dear Sir/Madam,
>         I am striking a difficulty when attempting to
> make a dial up PPP connection.  When I get to the stage
> of having to ALT-F3 to VTY3 session I do so and am met
> with the error messafe "Can't create /var/run/tun0.pid.
> No such file or directory.

That is normal.

>         At an earlier point in the Novice install
> procedure I specify A(uto) to set up the /var and other
> "slices"??  Is this a cause of the problem. 

No.

>         I would like to know if the Host in the FTP setup
> screen is "ftp.freebsd.org" i.e. primary site or
> "aone.net.au" my ISP.  Could you clarify this for me.  

It's the host that contains the installation files.  You could probably
use ftp.au.freebsd.org as a closer mirror.  You have to dial and connect
using ppp first, though (on the ALT-F3 screen).


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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