Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 23:01:32 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: rjs@clark.net (Ron Steele) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: 2.0.5-50622-SNAP install woes Message-ID: <199507181331.XAA05775@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.87.9507152208.A203-0100000@localhost> from "Ron Steele" at Jul 15, 95 10:31:08 pm
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Ron Steele stands accused of saying: > I am still trying to get 2.0.5 installed. I have it on a local 2.0R > system, but can't seem to get it FTP'ed via the install program. The > network is ok, as I can FTP via the command line after doing alt F4. > There are no error messages other than the generic failed message > in the box on the install program, alt F1 reveals nothing. I can only Have you turned on the extra debugging flag? It should tell you exactly what it's trying to fetch, and from where. If it scrolls off the top of the screen, hit ScrollLock and use the cursor keys to scroll back and read it. > assume that there is a problem in the directory path, ie the install > program is appending some directory onto what I give it in the dialog > box that I don't have in my directory tree. > Could some kind sole please tell me exactly the directory structure needed > on the host and where to point FTP to from the dialog box in the install > script. I have read every bit of the install help files multiple times > and have tried several different strategies based on inplications in these > files. I have downloaded and read every FAQ that I could find that has > anything to do with FreeBSD. Please, no RTFM replies unless you can point > me to the exact location of the information. As far as I can tell, it > isn't there. Well, RTFM insofar as your setup should look exactly the same as that on all of the FTP sites. Give the installer the path to the top level of the mirror; for example, in my case I have the CD mounted on /local2/archive/FreeBSD/2.0.5-RELEASE, and an anon ftp user logs in to /local2/archive, so I give the installer ftp://202.0.75.2/FreeBSD/2.0.5-RELEASE as the source. If I'm using my laptop, running the NCSA telnet FTP server, I have to set FTP active mode (the NCSA server doesn't grok passive). In that case, the files are in d:\archive\freebsd\205r, and an anon FTP user gets d:, so it's ftp://202.0.75.3/archive/freebsd/205r Make sure you have root.flp in the floppies directory, not UPDATES. > Ron -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
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