From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 14 11:44:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marlo.eagle.ca (marlo.eagle.ca [209.167.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C261037B40A for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:43:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu) Received: from phantom (staff.eagle.ca [209.167.16.15]) by marlo.eagle.ca (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id f5EIfOT13825; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:41:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu) Message-ID: <012e01c0f501$e7c650c0$0f01a8c0@phantom> From: "Gerald T. Freymann" To: "Will Senn" , References: Subject: Re: ftp install question Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:43:29 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I want to do (I think) an ftp install of freebsd. The install > instructions say 'If you plan to install FreeBSD via anonymous > FTP, the only things you will need are the installation floppies. That is most certainly correct. I have done plenty of installs on a computer with just two floppy disks, and a working connection to the Internet on somebody's network. > I am connecting to the internet via a Cable modem, my ISP (ATT) > requires that I pass a hostname parameter to dhcp Well, you can't just connect an empty machine to the cable modem and expect everything to work. Now, if your existing computer was set up to act as a gateway, then you could easily use the two floppies and get out over the net, but from what I gather from your comments, you are screwed as that's not the case. -gf To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message