From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 23 08:02:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA03478 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 08:02:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA03473 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 08:02:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA48966; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 17:02:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des) To: koti@stph.net (B Koteswara rao) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: need a help References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 23 Dec 1998 17:02:12 +0100 In-Reply-To: koti@stph.net's message of "Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:12:50 +0000 (GMT)" Message-ID: Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG koti@stph.net (B Koteswara rao) writes: > i was trying to install free bsd last night. but i am un able to do it. > i am trying to install it by anonymous ftp. > its giving something like "looking up host ftp.freebsd.org" > but its not getting further. no errors .. nothing is coming... The installation is trying to look up the IP address of the FTP server, and is apparently failing. You probably misconfigured your network connection. What kind of connection do you have? Are you installing over a dialup connection, or are you in a LAN that is somehow connected to the Internet? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message