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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
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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
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Hans J. Mayer, mayer@gmd.de or hmayer@acm.org
GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology