From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Aug 26 13:12:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pop.hccnet.nl (pop.hccnet.nl [193.172.127.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B0F37B42C for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 13:12:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parmenides.utp.net by pop.hccnet.nl via uds125-115.dial.hccnet.nl [193.173.115.125] with ESMTP id WAA03847 (8.8.5/1.13); Sat, 26 Aug 2000 22:12:39 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (janko@localhost) by parmenides.utp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA00344; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 22:15:27 GMT (envelope-from janko@compuserve.com) X-Authentication-Warning: parmenides.utp.net: janko owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 22:15:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Janko van Roosmalen X-Sender: janko@parmenides.utp.net To: Ryan Dimbleby Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing with FTP and DHCP over ADSL. In-Reply-To: <20000825102401.G15951@demon.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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