From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 15 16:12:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA12117 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 16:12:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA11832 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 23:10:49 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA05497; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 16:10:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 16:10:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: George Kent cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp setup In-Reply-To: <35323BD1.54AB@mcmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, George Kent wrote: > When I use stand/sysinstall and try to install Freebsd using ftp it will > not resolve hostname 'ftp.freebsd.org', I have a standard 28800 modem, > my internet provider is Cable and Wireless and there address is > 195.44.0.12: My e-mail address is sou0c8@mcmail.com. My domain name is > sou0c8.mcmail.com. I am a complete novice to Unix, so I would appreciate > the help as, in my opinion, it is not very clearly explained. You need to get your nameserver address from your ISP and plug that into the `Name server' field on the network interface setup 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