From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 31 13:39:15 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA26193 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 13:39:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (webbsd1.turnaround.com.au [203.39.138.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA26187 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 13:39:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au) Received: from TurnAround.com.au (dhcp64.turnaround.com.au [192.168.1.64]) by WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA20433; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 08:41:08 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au) Message-ID: <36B4CD49.16D03BE1@TurnAround.com.au> Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 08:38:17 +1100 From: Andrew Johns Organization: TurnAround Solutions P/L X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeffrey Vehrs <70673.3111@compuserve.com> CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install via PLIP problem References: <199901301116_MC2-6894-1E24@compuserve.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Aha - you _must_ mount the cdrom on a dir named "/2.2.6-RELEASE" _instead_ of /cdrom. It will work then... Jeffrey Vehrs wrote: > I'm giving you a little background of how it was set up. I have a laptop and > FreeBSD box with laplink cable attached to both. FreeBSD box is the host. It > has the CDROM drive. The goal is to install FreeBSD from the FBSD box w/ > CDROM drive onto the laptop via PLIP. This is how it works: > > iceman <-------> cooljoe > IP address 10.0.0.3 10.0.0.4 > > iceman ==> FBSD box w/ CDROM drive(host) > cooljoe ==> laptop > > I was able to ping each other on both boxes. Also, I can FTPs to each > other on both boxes. Now, the problem is that I could NOT install FreeBSD > from iceman thru /stand/sysinstall. > > I've already add 'ftp:*:99:99::0:0:FTP:/cdrom:/sbin/nologin' via vipw. The > 'err' msg said, "Warning: Can't CD to '2.2.6-RELEASE' distribution on this > FTP server". I can FTP manually to /cdrom without a problem. Did I miss > something here? > > TIA. > > -- Jeff > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Regards Andrew Johns TurnAround Solutions Pty Ltd http://www.turnaround.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message