Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 02:23:06 +0100 From: John Murphy <bigotfo@bigfoot.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: frustrated and furious Message-ID: <w3m9OR2b2rjr49E0u1pozouUfJ0T@4ax.com>
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Darrell Brown wrote: >I'm having a difficult time loading the distribution files over ftp. >Everytime I try and download the files, I receive 'unable to resolve >ftp.freebsd.org' Then it asks me to make sure my gateway, name server = and IP >address is correct, which my ISP confirmed. can you please help me??? > 'unable to resolve' sounds like a DNS problem. Can you ping the IPv4 address your ISP gave you for your name server? If you're more = comfortable using the ftp client from some other OS, you could fetch the compressed blocks of the binary distribution /bin.aa etc. using that, and then = install from (say) a FAT16 file system. Could be less frustrating. ;) John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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