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Re: Error resolving IP address installing via ftp from boot.iso
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 7 Jan 2010 08:53:01 -0600
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On 01/07/2010 06:14 AM, Fernando Campos wrote:
> Hi everybody!
>
> I'm really tired of wasting cd's and dvd's so I decided to use the
> boot.iso
> (ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/54/x86_64/images/boot.iso)
> to install my server. But when I filled up the two fields "ftp server"
> and "directory" (or something like that, I don't remember exactly), I
> got an error. Looking in the 2nd terminal (Alt+F2) I realized that there
> was an error resolving the name ftp.scientificlinux.org
> <http://ftp.scientificlinux.org>. I replace the server name by the
> server IP address ($host ftp.scientificlinux.org
> <http://ftp.scientificlinux.org>) and everything is working.
>
> Isn't that a bug?? Anybody use/care about network installation??? It's
> my DNS' error??
>

It's something to do with your DNS.
Network installs are the first round of tests that we do, and I 
regularly do network installs both at Fermilab and at home.
When I have a problem with it not recognizing the name, I usually find 
that I've typed in my dns server wrong.
Troy
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