From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Sep 11 16:29:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.integratus.com (miami.integratus.com [63.209.2.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0389637B423 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:29:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 20138 invoked by uid 5009); 11 Sep 2000 23:29:51 -0000 Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:24:16 -0700 From: Neil Bliss To: freebsd-doc@integratus.com Subject: proposed changes to INSTALL.TXT re: PR 20919 Message-ID: <20000911162416.C16751@integratus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hey folks, After seeing that PR 20919 was still unassigned, I took a look at this, and I think I've come up with some diffs that resolve the problem. They're below. Any feedback? thanks, Neil *** /usr/src/release/texts/i386/INSTALL.TXT Fri Feb 18 07:11:40 2000 --- /tmp/INSTALL.NEW Mon Sep 11 16:24:57 2000 *************** *** 140,148 **** drive in some FreeBSD machine, it's quite easy: You simply add the following line to the password file (using the vipw command): ! ftp:*:99:99::0:0:FTP:/cdrom:/sbin/nologin ! And anyone else on your network will now be able to choose a Media type of FTP and type in: ``ftp://'' after picking "URL" in the ftp sites menu. --- 140,155 ---- drive in some FreeBSD machine, it's quite easy: You simply add the following line to the password file (using the vipw command): ! ftp:*:99:99::0:0:FTP:/:/sbin/nologin ! Then create a symbolic link called in the root directory of ! the machine with the CDROM drive. For "Release Name", you should something ! along the lines of "4.1-RELEASE" or "4.0-CURRENT", or whatever your FreeBSD ! cdrom says on it. Create the symbolic link with a command similar to: ! ! ln -s /cdrom / ! ! Anyone else on your network will now be able to choose a Media type of FTP and type in: ``ftp://'' after picking "URL" in the ftp sites menu. -- ================================================ Neil Bliss Integratus Customer Support email: support@integratus.com www: http://www.integratus.com Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering? I think so, Brain, but balancing a family and a career ... it's all too much for me. ================================================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message