Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 03:22:47 +0000 (GMT) From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: Chris Peterson <chris@potamus.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FTP install silently fails and then installer has DNS resolution problems? Message-ID: <20011126031645.U44699-100000@big> In-Reply-To: <000b01c1760b$7a8be1b0$a586fa18@chris>
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On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Chris Peterson wrote: > I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.4 over FTP. Unfortunately, I can never > complete the install because the install step to FTP all the files fails > repeatedly. The computer is behind a NAT, so I am using passive FTP and DHCP > behind the NAT. > > After I select FTP from ftp.freebsd.org, everything seems to be working. > About half way through copying the files for the / partition, the installer > unexpectedly asks me to choose an FTP server again. I choose ftp.freebsd.org > again, but now the installer cannot resolve any DNS names, even > ftp.freebsd.org which worked a few minutes earlier. I have reproduced this > problem six times out of six attempts.. I have seen something similar when I tried to do a network installation. Try to type your ftp-server's IP instead of its domain name. ftp4.freebsd.org would be 205.149.189.91 Regards, Uli. ************************************ * P. U. Kruppa - Wuppertal * * Germany * * www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de * ************************************ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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