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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!news.mindlink.net!van-bc!io.org!nobody From: mattp@io.org (Matt of the Long Red Hair) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FTP installation problems Date: 5 Jan 1996 18:03:43 -0500 Organization: Internex Online, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (416 363 3783) Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4ckaof$j6p@ionews.io.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: twirl.io.org X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) I've been trying to do an FTP installation of FBSD over a PPP connection to my machine at home. I'm having difficulty, however, opening an FTP connection. The installer simply complains that it "can't open a connection to ftp.host.dom" -- not a very detailed complaint. The only thing that offurs to me that might be the problem is the third from last field on the PPP setup screen. The field which asks for "The IP of this connection." I find that title very unclear.. I've tried both the IP of my machine at home, and the IP of my ISP (the gateway) but neither has cleared up my FTP problem. I've never had problems with my SLIP/PPP setups either with Windows or Linux, so I know the problem must be specific to my setup of this installer. Any help would be appreciated.. Matt -- mattp@io.org 93pounse@wave.scar.utoronto.ca | "Sometime they will at239@freenet.carleton.ca aq519@freenet.toronto.on.ca | give a war and tigger@nether.net | nobody will come." Home Page http://www.io.org/~mattp | - Carl Sandburg