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Old April 26th, 2012, 16:56
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Default Boot from a FreeBSD 9 CD, network configuration
If I boot from CD-ROM (using a freebsd9 FreeBSD 9 CD), I can go to shell. I can configure the network interface, I can set the IP address, netmask, gateway, I can ping the local machine, internet machine (by IP address), but I don't understand how to set the DNS nameserver. I can't modify /etc/resolv.conff because it's read-only.

Is there a way to set DNS without having to mount a local partition?

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Old April 28th, 2012, 15:04
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If you do a ls -la /etc/resolv.conf you will notice that /etc/resolv.conf is actually a link to /tmp/bsdinstall_etc/resolv.conf. So, to get your DNS up and running you need to populate the /tmp/bsdinstall_etc/resolv.conf file.

PS: the /tmp/bsdinstall_etc dir doesn't exist by default. You should create it
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Old April 29th, 2012, 07:37
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Ok, it works!
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