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>From: 	Frank van der Linden[SMTP:frank@wins.uva.nl]
>Sent: 	Thursday, January 22, 1998 9:13 AM
>To: 	Koestler, Sonja (IT Man.)
>Cc: 	netbsd-help@netbsd.org
>Subject: 	Re: 1.3 installation
>
>On Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 08:54:24AM -0000, Koestler, Sonja (IT Man.) wrote:
>> 
>> then I go on "get distribution" and press "enter". The error message
>> follows immediately (therefore I can't say on which point it fails); I
>> even can't connect to the ftp server.
>> All the steps before were without errors/problems. I also checked the
>> network card, it runs under DOS. 
>
>The message you are seeing indicates that ftp (as executed by sysinst)
>terminated with a bad exit value. Perhaps DNS isn't set up right?
>Or somehow the ethernet card didn't get initialized OK. Maybe you
>could exit sysinst at this point (just interrupt or suspend it),
>and check by hand if the ec0 interface is up (ifconfig ec0), or
>if you can reach ftp.netbsd.org by just trying it from the shell.
>
>- Frank


Thanx....

I tried "ifconfig ec0" and it sais:
---> ifconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS ec0: Device not configured
then I typed "ifconfig ec0 137.223.85.80 and it sais again:
---> ifconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS ec0: Device not configured

I'm starting to desperate....

_sonja