From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 3 12:44:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA21142 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 12:44:54 -0800 (PST) (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 MAA20947 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 12:44:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA10971; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 12:44:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 12:44:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Matt Reynolds cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install Problems In-Reply-To: <352450B4.862A609A@unix.asb.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 Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Matt Reynolds wrote: > Hi. I am new to the many Unix variations but I thought that I should > get to know the system since a large mass of the web is based on Unix. There's a good reason for that. :-) > Anyways, I have all of the files that I need and I have the boot.flp > image on a disk to boot to. The problem is that after I set up > everything I can't run the installation. To clarify what I mean is that > either when I try to begin the install via FTP it gives me a message > saying that it can't find ftp.freebsd.org (the server I intend to use). > I realize that I must connect to my PPP server at my ISP, but how do I > get an active connection so I can get the installation under way? Try typing `add 0 0 HISADDR' after you get the PPP> prompt back. 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