Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 02:23:06 +0100 From: John Murphy <bigotfo@bigfoot.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: frustrated and furious Message-ID: <w3m9OR2b2rjr49E0u1pozouUfJ0T@4ax.com>
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Darrell Brown wrote: >I'm having a difficult time loading the distribution files over ftp. >Everytime I try and download the files, I receive 'unable to resolve >ftp.freebsd.org' Then it asks me to make sure my gateway, name server and IP >address is correct, which my ISP confirmed. can you please help me??? > 'unable to resolve' sounds like a DNS problem. Can you ping the IPv4 address your ISP gave you for your name server? If you're more comfortable using the ftp client from some other OS, you could fetch the compressed blocks of the binary distribution /bin.aa etc. using that, and then install from (say) a FAT16 file system. Could be less frustrating. ;) John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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