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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!blackbush.xlink.net!fu-berlin.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!news.darmstadt.gmd.de!venus.darmstadt.gmd.de!hmayer From: hmayer@venus.darmstadt.gmd.de (Hans J. Mayer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FTP Installing ... fails Date: 23 Jun 1997 13:01:20 GMT Organization: GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology Lines: 17 Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ols30$hl9$1@mars.darmstadt.gmd.de> Reply-To: mayer@gmd.de NNTP-Posting-Host: venus.darmstadt.gmd.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43367 Hi all, I'm trying to install freeBSD on a pc and it fails with: Cannot resolve hostname 'ftp.de.freebsd.org'! Are you shure ... I know my settings are correct (the Sun I'm typing this msg uses the same net- work, netmask, gateway, resolver) and I know my hardware is working because it works with W'95 :-( Is there a way to enter the IP number instead of a fqdn (ftp.de.freebsd.org)? TIA Hans -- Hans J. Mayer, mayer@gmd.de or hmayer@acm.org GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology