From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jun 29 06:37:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA15636 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 06:37:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gw1.konstanz.netsurf.de (root@gw1.konstanz.netsurf.de [194.163.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA15627 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 06:37:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de) Received: from duffner.konstanz.netsurf.de (surf78.konstanz.netsurf.de [194.163.242.78]) by gw1.konstanz.netsurf.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA23079; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 15:37:08 +0200 Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 11:01:14 +0200 (MESZ) From: Rainer M Duffner Subject: Re: Installing via FTP To: Kronos80@aol.com cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <949efed5.3596b9fe@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII X-Organization: enigma, http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~enigma X-Mailer: ANT RISCOS Marcel [ver 1.45] Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun 28 Jun, Kronos80@aol.com wrote: > Hello, > I have a question. I am trying to install FreeBSD release 2.2.6 over a PPP > link with my ISP. I can get connected to my isp and switch back to F1, but it > will not find any server in DNS. I also tried to specify a url ex. > ftp://209.155.82.18/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.6-RELEASE , but it doesn't work. Does > anyone have any sugestions? Erm.... You not trying to install from AOL, are you ? TTBOMK AOL doesn't offer a full and real internet access, as a normal ISP would. Also, I'd question if it is really convenient to install over AOL, even is it work. It's great if you have a 2MBit line and the mirror is somewhere on the same WAN, but over modem/ISDN ? ? ? (Somebody proof me wrong). cheers, Rainer -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |Rainer Duffner, E-Mail: duffner@fh-konstanz.de | | & Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de | |Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany | |"What's a Network ?" - Bill Gates, early 1980s | | WWW:http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~duffner | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message