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To: Kees Jan Koster <dutchman@spase.nl>
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Subject: Re: Install via FTP failed. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 23 Apr 1996 11:26:08 +0200."
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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 04:23:57 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> I've tried installing FreeBSD via FTP off a 2.1.0-release cdrom mounted
> on a linux machine. It seems that it can load the root image from but it
> cannot find the distributions. NFS install off the same cdrom mounted on
> the same linux box works OK. What did I do wrong?

Nothing, really - it's just a fault of the 2.1-RELEASE installer which
has since been fixed.  If you do this:

	mount -t isofs /dev/cd0a /cdrom_real
	cd /cdrom
	ln -s /cdrom_real/{floppies,packages,ports,dists/*} .

assuming, of course, that both /cdrom and /cdrom_real are somewhere
actually accessible by ftp, it will work.

					Jordan