Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:54:24 +0100 From: "Helmut Schneider" <jumper99@gmx.de> To: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [7.0-BETA4] bootonly install fails, 'hostname nor servername provided, or not known' Message-ID: <018801c8488f$fd7a6800$609b65c1@vpe.de> References: <000901c84163$f0b2b330$609b65c1@vpe.de>
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From: "Helmut Schneider" <jumper99@gmx.de> > I tried to install 7.0-BETA4 on both VMWARE Server 1.04 and VMWare > Workstation 6.02 using ftp over an http proxy and both fail with the > error message above. > > Did I miss anything? Needless to say that 6.2 installs fine. 7.0 (in general, not only the boot image) does not bring up the interface at boottime using DHCP. Assigning an IP manually or running dhclient after boot "solves" that problem.
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