Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 15:29:27 +1100 (EST) From: Anthony Hill <ahill@interconnect.com.au> To: "Sean O'Casey Hoss" <ocasey@UGAstro.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freeBSD sysinstall Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960207152417.22041E@tulpi.interconnect.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.90.960202154039.8948A-100000@ttauri>
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On Tue, 6 Feb 1996, Sean O'Casey Hoss wrote: > as FTP (primary site), left the ftp login as 'ftp' and 'anonymous', > created a FreeBSD partition on the 644MB of space left on the drive, and > let the Disk Label Editor use the default 'A' selection. I connected to > my host provider (UC Berkeley's shared high speed terminal service) and > switched back to tty1. The sysinstall program responded with "Cannot > resolve hostname 'ftp.freebsd.org'! Are you sure that your name server, > gateway and network interface are configured?" I tried several options > on settings before giving up on the attempt for that night. Nope - this is your problem - you need to configure the things you mention. It sounds like you have not entered a correct IP number for your providers DNS machine. All your other problems could be a symptom of this. Anthony Hill
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