From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 29 09:45:48 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id JAA02188 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 29 Jul 1995 09:45:48 -0700 Received: from otter.cs.yorku.ca (otter.cs.yorku.ca [130.63.92.22]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA02182 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 1995 09:45:46 -0700 Received: by cs.yorku.ca (8.6.12/YU_CS_869.1.1) id MAA05995; Sat, 29 Jul 1995 12:45:45 -0400 From: "S DAVID PULLARA" Received: from wolf by otter with SMTPD id <5994>; Sat, 29 July 1995 12:45:44 -0400 Received: by wolf.cs.yorku.ca (8.6.12/YU_CSsub_869.1.0) for questions@freebsd.org id MAA03213; Sat, 29 Jul 1995 12:45:44 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 12:45:44 -0400 Message-Id: <199507291645.MAA03213@wolf.cs.yorku.ca> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Install queries Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi there. I tried installing 2.0.5 last night from msdos, but it didn't display the partition the binaries were on. I re-read the install guide and realized that 2.0.5 can't read an extended dos partition :( Please correct me if this is incorrect. So I tried something neater: install via FTP. Only trouble is I'm not sure of some of the parameters (the one's I tried didn't work). Here's a brief description of my situation. I call a phone number with my computer/modem which connects me to York's terminal servers. I think their IP address (I don't know if I'm using this term correctly) is yorku.ca. From here I normally do a rlogin to the host machine I work with at York. However the terminal server supports ppp and slip. So in trying to use ppp for the installation, i need to specify: 1. my host name (I think this is...what? anything.foo.ca ?) 2. my domain name (I think this would be 'ca'?) 3. Gateway (I don't know what this is: how do I find out?) 4. Domain name server (I think, it might be 10.2.0.78 ...how can I verify?) Sorry for the long-winded message. I just wanted to give you enough info to give you an idea of my situation. Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks S. David Pullara