From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 18 08:01:08 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11DE216A402 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:01:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pjklist2@ekahuna.com) Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E42BD13C48C for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:01:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pjklist2@ekahuna.com) Received: from pc-17 (dyn205.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.205]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:01:07 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:01:06 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20070417211859.GA7048@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20070417204545236.AAA301@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.12a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Message-ID: <20070418080107274.AAA309@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> Cc: Sean Murphy , Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Is FTP install broken? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:01:08 -0000 On 17 Apr 2007 at 17:18, Kris Kennaway boldly uttered: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 01:45:44PM -0700, Philip J. Koenig wrote: > > Re: Kris's assertion, I guess I could have lived with that if it > > weren't for the fact that the installer doesn't give you any clue of > > this. > > > > Thought I was going to avoid the time to download and burn a couple > > of CD's, and now it's sucked up way more of my time than making those > > CD's ever would have... > > > > Thanks for the answers/input. > > No special casing happens for the snapshot builds, i.e. sysinstall is > not specially modified to disable the FTP install option. > > It should be mentioned in the documentation; but for all I know it > already is :) > > Kris Well I looked at all the docs I could find and nothing stood out. (BTW, there are still some other user interface errors in sysinstall, ie things that lead to unexpected results, but I can't remember specifics now.) -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium