From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 20 19:04:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA15587 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Apr 1996 19:04:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hoover.stanford.edu (hoover.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.99]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA15580 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 1996 19:04:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU by HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU (PMDF V4.3-10 #13307) id <01I3RX0L64N4002D1U@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU>; Sat, 20 Apr 1996 19:04:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 19:04:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson Subject: Installing over Internet To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <01I3RX0L6NXU002D1U@HOOVER.STANFORD.EDU> X-VMS-To: IN%"freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-VMS-Cc: ANDRSN MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I tried to install FreeBSD on a new SCSI hard drive by FTP this afternoon.....I booted a boot floppy made from the 2.1 cdrom, and on the "options" menu I changed FreeBSD 2.1-RELEASE to FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE. And filled out all the other forms and everything, and said YES, continue. And it FTPs but simply tried over and over again to get /dists/floppies/root.flp or boot.flp, but the files are not found. So I guess what I did doesn't work. What will? Annelise