From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 14 12:55: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-104-252.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.104.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B034637B407 for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 12:54:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 45AD866F68; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 12:54:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 12:54:59 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: jim flournoy Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I still can't get my net install to work from CDrom Message-ID: <20010814125459.B41656@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010814191551.32328.qmail@web20207.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="z6Eq5LdranGa6ru8" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010814191551.32328.qmail@web20207.mail.yahoo.com>; from bsdspaceman@yahoo.com on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:15:51PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --z6Eq5LdranGa6ru8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:15:51PM -0700, jim flournoy wrote: > Thanks for the pointers - this e-mail should be text > based now. Hollar at me if I'm wrong! more below.. Yes, this looks better :) Thanks. > I typed "any" without the quotes because I thought I > was prompted to, but no, I'm not mixing distributions. OK, well just leave it as default. > I tried again without changing this. I'm doing an ftp > install for a machine without a cdrom. I did edit the > passwd file of the data server as instructed. Still I > can't seem to get the path right. I have tried >=20 > ftp://192.168.0.10 > ftp://192.168.0.10/cdrom > ftp://192.168.0.10/pub/FreeBSD >=20 > in all these cases it can't seem to find the install > image. Is there a better path I should be using? =20 Ah, okay. You're trying to install from a private server. Look in the transfer logs for ftpd on that server to see what pathname it's trying to access. It's probably going to be something like /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.3-RELEASE/ > also, on a related note - can this be done using a > laptop as the data server? =20 You can set up ftpd on anything, if it's running UNIX. Kris --z6Eq5LdranGa6ru8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7eYISWry0BWjoQKURAsNWAJ4tnyY7Stk5yxxtQoimvYsx1uvv/ACgqRxU i8aigfIQlA7Cx5PKi/88y8s= =Z2sc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --z6Eq5LdranGa6ru8-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message