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From: "Brian D. Kruse" <bkruse@pconline.com>
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Subject: Free BSD 4.2 Install: Problems when installing BSD via FTP
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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 22:42:43 -0600 (CST)
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Hello all,

I was wondering if anyone has any ideas on how to
resolve the following:

I am attempting to install Free BSD 4.2 via FTP on
an old Dell Pentium 90 PC with 24 MB RAM, 500MB
HD, and two new Linksys Fast Ethernet cards.  The
Ethernet cards came from a cheapo hub/card kit at
CompUsa.   Note: there's no CDROM, so network
install seems to be my only hope.

I've installed both cards, but leave one of the
cards without Ethernet and plug the other into the
hub which is then uplinked to my Cisco 675 DSL
router.  Both the card and the hub have the green
lights flashing, so I know the connection is
there.  Also, all of my other computers connected
through the hub have no problems accessing
Internet via http and ftp.  Finally, I've made
sure the target BSD machine's ethernet cable is
not plugged into the socket immediately next to
the router uplink.

I've run into the same problem with both active
and passive FTP install methods:

I set up card to point to router (10.0.0.1) as the
gateway and another local 10.0.0.x machine as the
name server.  I point to a bogus nameserver so the
pings will work, but lookup will never be needed
because I type IP address in explicitly.

I assign the card an unused 10.0.0.x address.

I point the installer at ftp.freebsd.org's IP
address instead of the ftp.freebsd.org address.  

The installer then proceeds to attempt establish a
connection with the server at the IP address.  It
always times out and claims that service doesn't
exist on remote server.  I've never established a
connection.  I've also tried pointing the
installer to a local 10.0.0.x machine with an FTP
server running, but connection times out there as
well.

If I click <ALT>+<F2>, I can verify via the
diagnostic messages that the installer has
successfully grabbed the 10.0.0.x I assign to it
and has also established communication with the
router at 10.0.0.1.

I've also tried <ALT>+<F4>, which opens the
<insert-proper-name-hereshell.  I've tried to
use the shell to do some sleuthing, but my obvious
choices, ping and tracert, aren't supported there.

Any advice?  i.e.  diagnostic commands to run from
<ALT>+<F4shell?   change settings on Cisco
Router?  Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.  I
want my mutt, slrn, and ssh!

Regards and thanks to everyone who writes on this
list.  I was able to get as far as I did by
reading these archives.

-Brian






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