pkg and port installation

[nedu]

i am a newbie to freebsd.i installed it on my system recently without partitioning to learn it using the handbook.but i just cant install any application including pkg and port-mgmt.when i tried to bootstrap the system using the command /usr/sbin/pkg, i got the error message a prebui

t version of pkg could not be found in your system, consider changing packagesite or installing from ports. if i try to install from port, it displays the message couldnt fetch it .try to retrieve this manually into /usr/ports/distfiles and try again. i have done all i can but to no avail.i need some help please

 

[marino]

you've got no network.

confirm with ping www.google.com
if you don't get something like

PING www.google.com (216.58.194.164): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 216.58.194.164: icmp_seq=0 ttl=52 time=57.348 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.194.164: icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=69.559 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.194.164: icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=56.908 ms

then you probably neglected to set up the network (e.g. DHCP) during installation. check the handbook on how to set it up manually (or rerun post-install menu on installer which I don't know how to do on F11)

 

[nedu]

Ok, would try that now.

 

[SirDice]

Indeed, check you network settings. Specifically your DNS settings (resolv.conf(5)). The error "No address record" is almost always the result of not having correct DNS servers configured.

 

[tingo]

FWIW, sometimes I see in FreeBSD installs that this issue pops-up: well-known servers (like portsnap.FreeBSD.org) responds with "No address record" the first time they are referenced (be it with pkg, fetch or something else). Still, the machine has a network. What always helps is to retry an operation which references the server, for example ping portsnap.freebsd.org - this works. After that retry your operation, and now it works.
Unfortunately, this happens so seldom that I have not yet opened a bug for it.