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antihero

Hey guys,

I'm new to bsd FreeBSD and ran into some errors during installation concerning network configuration. I installed the system and was going to install KDE and X. When going to post-configuration I went to packages and tried to install it through there but I get a message that says that the mirror doesn't contain software. I am connecting through a wired connection using DHCP. I have tried to ping google.com and have gotten success but when trying to get through to the mirrors I get nothing. Can anyone shed some light? I am pretty competent in linux and with computers in general but bsb FreeBSD is a different animal from what I am seeing.
 
Please specify what version of FreeBSD you installed. Please specify exactly what you did and what the error messages were. Please clean up your writing.
 
fonz said:
Please specify what version of FreeBSD you installed. Please specify exactly what you did and what the error messages were. Please clean up your writing.
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I tried installing FreeBSD 9.1 from a USB. I downloaded the .img and created the boot disk with dd(1) using Archbang Linux.. The error message I get says there is an error connecting to ftp. Please check the to make sure the url is correct. I diagnose that as a network problem. Because I can not ping google now. After the install was complete I was prompted to exit installation and go into post install to configure the more complex system settings. I went into configure then packages and wen prompted to choose media type I chose FTP and then chose the main site. That's when the error came up. I then started selecting different mirrors but got the same message. The mirror is not available check url etc. I am sorry I can not post the exact message I am currently at a friends house to try to find a solution and do not have my laptop with me.
 
antihero said:
I diagnose that as a network problem. Because I can not ping google now.
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If you can't ping, you have indeed a networking problem that needs to be fixed first. The first things we need for that are the contents of your /etc/rc.conf and the output of the command % ifconfig -a
 
# setenv PACKAGESITE [url]ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9-stable/Latest/[/url]

There are currently no packages for 9.1. And you don't want to use them anyway, they're never updated.
 
Yeah, antihero should fix his network issues first. No amount of setting PACKAGESITE will help if there's no internet access ;)
 
After installing again I am no longer having network issues... I am however still having mirror issues.. I am using a 32 bit laptop so what would be the mirror site for that... should I not be using FreeBSD 9.1? Perhaps a earlier version would be best?
 
I tryed that got the same errors. I'm going to try PC-BSD. If that works I may run that to get used to unix. Then go to FreeBSD.
 
These are the correct ones for FreeBSD 9:
Code: 
# setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-stable/Latest/
or
# setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9-stable/Latest/
 
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