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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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