Problem with sysinstall in 9.0-current?

[Randi Harper]

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Gerd Truschinski <gerd at truschinski.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have tried
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201005/FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT-201006-amd64-bootonly.iso
> and all the other 9.0-current ISOs from 201001, 201002, 201004 and 201005.
>
> This is what I have done:
> - Boot from CD
> - Select Region Germany
> - Select german keyboard
> - Select "Begin a custom installation"
> - Select "View/Set various installation options"
> - Select "Media Type"
> - Select "Install from a FTP server"
> - Select "ftp.freebsd.org"
> - Select ra0 (my first LAN device)
> - Select NO, i.e. no IPv6
> - Select YES, i.e. DHCP
> - I get an IP-address from the DHCP-Server, also a  IPv4 gateway and a
>  nameserver
> !! but instead going back to the menu I get an error message "Cannot resolv
> hostname ftp.freebsd.org"
>
> Wen I try this with FreeBSD-8.0-STABLE or
> FreeBSD-8.1-PRERELEASE-201006-amd64-bootonly.iso I get _no_ error message
> and all went fine.
>
> I have asked about this problem on current and I have send a PR
> (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=148220) but got no answer except
> to use disc1 to install FreeBSD. Which is not that what I want. I want to
> install over the net.
>
> Did anyone from this list has an idea what is going wrong?
>
> /gT/
>
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Can you pop over to the shell (or fixit) and see what the status of
your network configuration is? ie: ifconfig output, route,
/etc/resolv.conf