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Date:      Fri, 3 Apr 1998 12:44:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Matt Reynolds <mrenolds@unix.asb.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Install Problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980403124328.10860H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <352450B4.862A609A@unix.asb.com>

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On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Matt Reynolds wrote:

> Hi.  I am new to the many Unix variations but I thought that I should
> get to know the system since a large mass of the web is based on Unix.

There's a good reason for that.  :-)

> Anyways, I have all of the files that I need and I have the boot.flp
> image on a disk to boot to.  The problem is that after I set up
> everything I can't run the installation.  To clarify what I mean is that
> either when I try to begin the install via FTP it gives me a message
> saying that it can't find ftp.freebsd.org (the server I intend to use).
> I realize that I must connect to my PPP server at my ISP, but how do I
> get an active connection so I can get the installation under way?

Try typing `add 0 0 HISADDR' after you get the PPP> prompt back.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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