From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 14 12:38:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snoopy.postfuture.com (mail.postfuture.com [216.234.248.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D2E437B40A for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:38:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wsenn@postfuture.com) Received: from wwsenn (216.234.249.243 [216.234.249.243]) by snoopy.postfuture.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id L9M9B6H0; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:38:27 -0500 From: "Will Senn" To: "Freebsd-Questions" , "Gerald T. Freymann" Subject: RE: ftp install question Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:38:27 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 In-Reply-To: <015d01c0f503$679d4140$0f01a8c0@phantom> Importance: Normal 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 Gerald said: - So what exactly are you saying then? You're going to do what, with -your existing computer? Erase it? Then load FreeBSD? Heck no, I figured I would just dual boot the box. I want to evaluate FreeBSD not switch without knowing how it works. Here's the deal, I have a cable modem - right? I could just download the iso(s)... I saw this nifty ftp 2 floppy setup note in the install html doc. I thought that I would try it out, not being the flaky sort it occurred to me that in order to access my ISPs network I have to be able to provide the hostname via a dhcp request. This is becoming typical, but has not always been so. So I requested clarification of the issue on this mailing list. Here we are... I hold out hope that someone knows if I can provide the hostname parameter to dhcp. As the discussion continued - the question became somewhat moot in that I know what the ip and dns servers are (haven't changed yet). So, in all actuallity I can enter them in manually and later change my nic to use dhcp(probably). Anyway, thanks for the assist! Will To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message