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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: :-( Almost installed Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 10:19:53 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Service Lines: 37 Message-ID: <322028C9.167EB0E7@www.play-hookey.com> References: <01bb9097$d6f40b80$374004c7@nbn.com.nbn.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Zell wrote: > > First off your talking to a UNIX/FreeBSD novice. So if I sound like I'm > clueless then hey! I am<g>.. > > Anyway I get the boot disk and boot and it likes my machine, I do all the > things it asks and it starts the huge ftp download for the install from > ftp. All goes well and I get bored watching it so I go away for awhile. I > come back and it has finished but my ISP timed me out and disconnected me. > I'm at the sysinstall where it asks about setting up Samba. The first > screen locks up since it cannot get the files because I'm disconnected. > DEBUG tells me this. I try various, probably foolish, things and eventually > I lock up and reboot. The system boots fine (? tell me its fine and I don't > need to start over) and so I type /stand/sysinstall, after logging in as > root, and up comes the install. All seems OK except I cannot seem to figure > out how to tell it my nameserver and TCP info. I can get into ppp and run > it but without this info it doesn't do me any good. > > So... > 1. After screwing up the install is it salvageable or should I start over? > 2. If it can be salvaged is there anything I should do besides get ppp > working? > 3. How do I reenter the nameserver, gateway etc. info to make ppp work? > > Any help would be welcome, > Zell Info on your gateway, local IP address, and such goes in /etc/sysconfig. There's plenty of comments in there to explain what's going on. You can identify your nameserver(s) in /etc/resolv.conf . -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |