From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Aug 27 14:12:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pop.hccnet.nl (pop.hccnet.nl [193.172.127.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC1C037B424 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 14:12:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parmenides.utp.net by pop.hccnet.nl via uds93-115.dial.hccnet.nl [193.173.115.93] with ESMTP id XAA20869 (8.8.5/1.13); Sun, 27 Aug 2000 23:12:17 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (janko@localhost) by parmenides.utp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA00371; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 23:12:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from janko@compuserve.com) X-Authentication-Warning: parmenides.utp.net: janko owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 23:12:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Janko van Roosmalen X-Sender: janko@parmenides.utp.net To: Ryan Dimbleby Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing with FTP and DHCP over ADSL. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Janko van Roosmalen wrote: > > IIRC you only can install through FTP if you are in a network which is > directly connected to the Internet. On a single machine with a modem you > cannot do an FTP install. It is not clear to me what kind of setup you are > using and have no experience with ADSL. > I did not remember this correctly. It applied to a Linux distribution. It seems to be possible. > On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Ryan Dimbleby wrote: > > > I'm trying to install FBSD over ADSL at home. > > > > The connection is NAT'd which means all the internal addresses are on > > 192.168.x. range. :( > > > > After choosing the FTP site and asking the system to use DHCP it can't > > detect the settings from the router. This takes me to a blank ifconfig screen. > > > > I tried adding the settings as instucted by my ISP. > > > > Gateway: 192.168.254.254 > > name server: 192.168.254.254 > > IP: 192.168.254.3 (NT box had previously used this address.) > > mask: 255.255.255.0 > > > > Then the look up timed out as it could not resolve ftp.uk.freebsd.org. > > The address of "ftp.uk.freebsd.org" is 195.40.61 It might succeed if you use the IP address. Janko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message