Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 22:09:17 -0400 From: "James Gill" <gill@topsecret.net> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: FTP/CD images Message-ID: <NDBBJDFMIMOCFNNCEKADGEIMCIAA.gill@topsecret.net>
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hi, after beating my head against this issue for months, i'm finally starting to get around it, but cruising through the archives of this list i found this interesting note from Doug White: ---- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 18:11:33 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTP install from CD does not work [snipped doug's description of how to make a working FTP install site from a CD] ** CD BURNERS: Please build the next CD so that it is directly ftp-moutable so we can get the CD, mount it on a machine with a CD, and install to a machine without a CDROM. ** [.sig snipped] ---- ...so four years later i'm working with v3.2 and i *still* can't have a functional FTP site directly from a CD-ROM. Yes, i KNOW that NFS is a better way to do a network install, but some situations (like not having an NFS server on my NT box) make that tough. PLEASE please let's make this work. There are a lot of people who've run up against this, and especially for people who are, like me, new to FreeBSD (and a lot of us coming from the NT world) and this is a really unnecessary hassle. Even moreso for those of us who are only able to play with this stuff during our off hours, being delayed and confused like this is a lousy intro to the OS. ===================================== James Gill * http://www.topsecret.net ===================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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