From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 23 13:48:30 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA06847 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 13:48:30 -0700 Received: from husc.harvard.edu (scunix5.harvard.edu [140.247.30.45]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA06836 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 13:48:25 -0700 Received: from fas by husc.harvard.edu with SMTP; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 16:48:23 -0400 Received: by fas (5.0/16.2) id AA07607; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 16:47:08 -0400 Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 16:47:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Sir Ilya Tsymbal Subject: install problem with 3c509. What to do? To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII content-length: 1559 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 16:33:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Sir Ilya Tsymbal Subject: Install problem To: hackers@freebsd.net Cc: Ilya Tsymbal Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I have been trying to install FreeBSD but to no avail. After booting with a floppy, doing the HD stuff, then booting from HD, I get a nice screen from which I choose to install bindist, through FTP, Ethernet, with a 3COM card at 300h memory and IRQ 10, which is what the card is configured for. I am then prompted for all sortsa stuff, like IP, netmask, name, domain name and some others. when this is all done, and the program says 'fetching the files blah blah' I switch to the command output screen, and I see these error messages: NcFTP: could not get your passwd entry: (9) bad file descriptor : gethostbyname error(2): host name lookup failure NcFTP 1.8.6 (october 20..... blah blah... Error: improper distribution. No checksum script found. I know the card and the connnection works fine, I have logged in to a Novell server with it. So, if you have any idea what could be wrong or what I could do to get around th problem, I would appreciate if you tell me. I will be checking this newsgroup (CUBFM), but please also CC: your reply to me. Thanks, Ilya Tsymbal Ilya Tsymbal '96 Harvard U, Quincy House. itsymbal@husc.harvard.edu http://itsymbal.student.harvard.edu/