Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 22:15:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Janko van Roosmalen <janko@compuserve.com> To: Ryan Dimbleby <ryan@hosty.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing with FTP and DHCP over ADSL. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10008262143430.270-100000@parmenides.utp.net> In-Reply-To: <20000825102401.G15951@demon.net>
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IIRC you only can install through FTP if you are in a network which is directly connected to the Internet. On a single machine with a modem you cannot do an FTP install. It is not clear to me what kind of setup you are using and have no experience with ADSL. A couple of months ago I installed FreeBSD 3.4 by ftp. I used two systems. On a Pentium-200 I ran SuSe Linux 6.2 with ISDN, IP forwarding and NAT. The installation was done on a a 486-120 which was connected to the Linux box with a LAN card. I used a fixed IP address for the 486, no DHCP. You mentioned a NT box. If you can set up the NT box with an equivalent functionality as my SuSe box it should work. Good luck, Janko - Netherlands On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Ryan Dimbleby wrote: > I'm trying to install FBSD over ADSL at home. > > The connection is NAT'd which means all the internal addresses are on > 192.168.x. range. :( > > After choosing the FTP site and asking the system to use DHCP it can't > detect the settings from the router. This takes me to a blank ifconfig screen. > > I tried adding the settings as instucted by my ISP. > > Gateway: 192.168.254.254 > name server: 192.168.254.254 > IP: 192.168.254.3 (NT box had previously used this address.) > mask: 255.255.255.0 > > Then the look up timed out as it could not resolve ftp.uk.freebsd.org. > > I've looked all over the website but can't find anything that can help - most > install help files seem to be CDROM based. > > I've checked to see if Ethernet (3Com) has been detected and it says it > has. > > Any suggestions? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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