From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 11 19:11:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topsecret.net (gill.apk.net [207.54.148.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 05D8D150E8 for ; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 19:11:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gill@topsecret.net) Received: from stumpy by topsecret.net with SMTP (MDaemon.v2.7.SP5.R) for ; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 22:09:05 -0400 From: "James Gill" To: Subject: FTP/CD images Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 22:09:17 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: questions@freebsd.org X-Return-Path: gill@topsecret.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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