Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 03:33:07 -0800 From: "Ralph F. De Witt" <ralphdewitt@charter.net> To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Preinstall Questions? Message-ID: <200311110333.07661.ralphdewitt@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <3FB15922.7050408@daleco.biz> References: <200311110440.06926.ralphdewitt@charter.net> <3FB15922.7050408@daleco.biz>
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On Tuesday 11 November 2003 01:48 pm, you wrote: > Ralph F. De Witt wrote: > > > >unkitty# cvsup /usr/local/etc/ports-supfile > >Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its hostname correct? > > > >When I configured the network. I configured for DHCP and then filled > in the > >machine name unkitty as host and filled in a fictitous ralphfdewitt.org > as > > This can cause problems with a few things if > FBSD is unable to resolve a name. Good news: > you can fake it out. > > Put this in /etc/hosts: > > the.ip.of.unkitty unkitty.ralphfdewitt.org > unkitty > > And make sure that /etc/resolv.conf is configured > to check the hosts file prior to checking the name > service.... > > > HTH, > > Kevin Kinsey > DaleCo, S.P. Kevin: Thank you for your response to my cvsup problem. Lute has also given me a response that has worked for me. If you do not mind I am going to put your solution on hold for a short time while I try to get the Linux EXT2 data partition mount. Right now the mounting of that partition is really needed. However I will comeback to your solution. I think that there may be something not correct with the networking. It is working but seems to be having a harder time than with other Linux distributions. Thanks for your help with this matter. -- Ralph
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