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From: michael@okjunc.junction.net (Michael Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5 Install
Date: 6 Jun 1995 08:14:15 GMT
Organization: Okanagan Internet Junction, Vernon B.C., Canada
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References: <RONNIE.95Jun2131921@madhatter.cisco.com> <3r0h7e$3l0@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <3r0h7e$3l0@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>In article <RONNIE.95Jun2131921@madhatter.cisco.com>,
>Ronnie B. Kon <ronnie@cisco.com> wrote:
>>I think there's a bug in the (updated) boot floppy, for an "other" FTP
>>site.  I get complaints about badly formed URL, and the display of the
>>URL name is clearly from a bad pointer.
>
>This has been fixed in the latest boot ALPHA floppies (which change almost
>once every 2 hours or so :-).  Please get them off of:
>
>	ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-ALPHA

I picked them up here Monday evening after 10pm to try a PPP install. 
Everything worked fine until after I made the PPP connection to our 
terminal server and went back to Alt-F1 to press enter. At that point it 
was unable to resolve the hostname. I tried again with freefall and then 
using a URL with freefall's IP address. No go. Could it be a routing problem?

Or could it have something to do with the hostname. When asked for a 
hostname I said "joe" just to put something in, but since we are using 
dynamic PPP addresses I have no way of knowing which hostname I will get 
after connection.



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