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From: Keith Leonard <keithl@gil.net>
To: matt quelch <mattq@techies.co.uk>
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Matt,

All I can add is that except for putting out my eyebrows (when I got
flamed for this one) I was not anymore sucessful than thou on the ftp
install from novice. Finally bought a CD and installed from there (glad I
did.)

Wish I could help - maybe the gurus will hear two voice (anymore out
there) and check it out.

Keith

On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, matt quelch wrote:

> Thanks firstly for your reply.
> 
> I am trying to reach ftp.freebsd.org
> I can reach this ftp server from the same pc if booted under windows 95.
> 
> any response from anyone else in the same situation will be greatly
> appreciated......
> ***********************************************************
> 
> Techies Internet 
> Matt Quelch
> Internet Sales Executive
> 
> mailto:mattq@techies.co.uk
> 
> http://www.techies.co.uk
> 
> ***********************************************************
> 
> 
> 
> >----------
> >From: 	Doug White[SMTP:dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu]
> >Sent: 	21 September 1996 04:25
> >To: 	matt quelch
> >Cc: 	'questions@freebsd.org'
> >Subject: 	Re: Ref: freebsd
> >
> >On Fri, 20 Sep 1996, matt quelch wrote:
> >
> >> I hope you dont mind me emailing you direct but i urgently need
> >> assistance on installing freebsd over ftp. 
> >> I have a 500md fdisked drive. I boot from the 2.1.5 disk i have created,
> >> select novice etc...then install method ftp.
> >> I set my host name to br ns0 domain is techies.co.uk name server is a
> >> remote dns server from uunet pipex. The gateway is my leased line router
> >> 64k.
> >> It gets as far as trying to log in as ftp user then sits there and does
> >> nothing.?
> >
> >Hm.  
> >
> >What ftp server are you trying?  Can you reach it OK from another
> >machine
> >on the same local net?
> >
> >host name should be fully qualified, ie, ns0.techies.co.uk.
> >DNS server should have an IP address not a name.  (Sorry, you can't
> >lookup
> >the name server to find the IP address for the name server.)
> >
> >Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> >Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking
> >Assistant
> >http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> >
> >
>