From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Apr 1 00:32:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA13418 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 00:32:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sweden.it.earthlink.net (sweden-c.it.earthlink.net [204.250.46.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA13406 for ; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 00:32:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bh@epigram.com) Received: from [38.28.60.46] ([38.28.60.46]) by sweden.it.earthlink.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA14137; Wed, 1 Apr 1998 00:31:58 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: brandon@209.0.75.3 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <01BD5D1A.69AB2A80@the-bounty> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 00:37:42 -0700 To: Sean Holmes From: Brandon Huey Subject: Re: installation boot disk documentation Cc: "'freebsd-doc@freebsd.org'" Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org are you certain 'bounty' is your hostname, or that you have a static address from your isp? btw, sysinstall does have a field for your ip address (which you didn't include below) -bh At 11:55 PM -0500 3/27/98, Sean Holmes wrote: >Ok this can not be that damn hard....however everytime I get to the >terminal, dial my isp, login, and try to move on with the install I get >this crap; about how I cant connect to ftp.freebsd.org >So where is the options on the network setup screen >Currently I have the following >Hostname: bounty (my login) >Domain: siscom.net (my isp) >Nameserver: 206.244.171.100 (my isp's ip address) >Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 (the default) >Everything else is blank >So what am I doing wrong? >Why can't I continue with the ftp installation? >And while im at it I would have just bought the cd-rom however walnut >creek informed me that there is a newer version out that wont be on cd and >available for them to ship for a few weeks >So here I am trying to do an ftp install, spending hours flipping through >the same install screens, getting nowhere but pissed off >Can u help? > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message