From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 29 03:37:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C7C637B401; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 03:37:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (bay2-dav33.bay2.hotmail.com [65.54.246.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1BC643FB1; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 03:37:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sukhbinders@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 03:37:50 -0800 Received: from 219.93.219.79 by bay2-dav33.bay2.hotmail.com with DAV; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 11:37:50 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [219.93.219.79] X-Originating-Email: [sukhbinders@hotmail.com] From: "Sukhbinder Singh" To: , "John Vender" , , , , , , , References: <370EFEC0-5F79-11D7-B4F7-00039369D83A@jmv.com.au> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 19:36:33 +0800 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 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Mar 2003 11:37:50.0633 (UTC) FILETIME=[A0F31190:01C2F5E7] X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 14:13:45 -0800 cc: Sukhbinder Singh Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation Problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 11:37:53 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: John Murphy To: Sukhbinder Singh Cc: Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 10:22 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation Problems "Sukhbinder Singh" wrote: > First, I made the 2 image floppy disk for the 2 image files by >downloading them from ftp.freebsd.org. These 2 files are kern.flp and >msfroot.flp. I also downloaded and made an image disk for drvivers.flp just >to download the drivers at the installation process. Sounds like you are trying to install the 5.0 version. I would advise anyone who is fairly new to FreeBSD to try 4.7 instead. You would need to obtain the 4.7 images for kern.flp and mfsroot.flp. There is no driver.flp for 4.7. >I have 2 MB of my hard disk space devoted to FreeBSD. 2MB isn't enough! I presume you meant 2GB :) >Then in the next screen I get another window >with a request message like "Do you want to try DHCP configuration at the >Interface ? Yes No ". I selected No and proceeded to the next level of the >installation process. In this next level, I get a big screen called the >"Network Configuration" window to proceed with my ftp. I think or suspect >this is where the problem is. This window has 7 fields which it requires me >to enter. These 7 fields are host, domain, ipv4 gateway, name server, IPv4 >address netmask :, extra option to ifconfig. I do not know any information >regarding any of the fields. If I leave all of these fields empty, the >installation program prompts me with an error message like "must specify a >host name of some sort !" Then I just entered a host name for the host, >like foo.com and pressed enter to proceed all the way through the 7 fields >to the OK button. You definitely need some more entries there. Choose something that you would not find on the net for domain. I use the rather boring my.domain and the hostname can be any word you like. You must insert a valid IP in the Name Server (DNS) field. If you usually use Microsoft Windows to connect to your ISP, you should be able to see the Name Server address by using winipcfg while connected. Or you may be able to find this from your ISP's www help pages, or contact their Tech. Support as a last resort. Without a Name Server the installation won't be able to convert a name like ftp.freebsd.org into a number (62.243.72.50). And therefore will not be able to connect. It would probably help to put an entry in the interface netmask field. 255.255.255.0 should be ok. >It fails to download freebsd automatically from the freebsd ftp site like >it should. Any help will be helpful. I hope this is helpful. Good luck. John. I did what you asked me to do. This time I had a little bit of progress but still I got a differen error message. I used the windows command winipcfg command to get the DNS information. As I indicated in my previous mail there are 6 fields in the windows in the "Network Configuration" window where these 6 fields are host, domain, ipv4 gateway, name server, IPv4 address netmask : , extra option to ifconfig. The hostname I typed as :- foo The domain name as you indicated in your mail that you used my.domain I also used my.domain The netmask automatically chaged to :- 255.255.255.0 The name server address or the DNS address after checking using winipcfg was: 202.188.0.133 but when I use the arp command it gives me a different address instead. It gives me 202.188.0.132 instead. The ipv4 gateway information is blank with no information on this. The IPv4 information is also left blank with no information and the extra option to ifconfig is also left blank with no information. I chose to download using FTP. after keying in all the information like the login name, password and the telephone number for my ISP, I tried connecting, I got an error message like " Cannot resolve hostname 'ftp.freebsd.org' ! Are you sure that your name se rver, gateway and network interface are correctly configured ?" then I pressed enter after this I got another message like "Killing previous PPP process 34". Can anyone help regarding this problem. Any help will be helpful. thanks, sukh