Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 13:03:28 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Kevin McQuiggin <mcquiggi@sfu.ca> Cc: docs@freebsd.org Message-ID: <5341.820271008@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 Dec 1995 10:29:50 PST." <199512281830.KAA23334@ferrari.sfu.ca>
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> My CDROM is on the E: drive on the windows box. > > The URL I supplied for ftp install was ftp://142.58.14.242/e:/dists, as that > is the subdir on the CD ROM containing the bin directory, etc. Are you SURE your ftp client works that way? Mine on NT doesn't - it just plops you into whichever directory you designate as `E'. I tried it as an FTP server for a FreeBSD 2.1 CD and it worked just great as an install point.. :-) > Secondly, the relationship of the options editor "Package" string (or > whatever it's called, it has 2.1.0-RELEASE as a default value, and the > target directory on the specified host, is not specified and very confusing. The options in general are poorly handled. This will hopefully change once I hack the dialog library to occupy only certain areas of the screen. Now that I've added display and action callbacks to the libdialog stuff (and should add entry and exit callbacks too, it just occurred to me! :-) I can use the two to make options fully context sensitive. When you traverse over a given choice, any modifiers for it can pop up in an options editing area. I'm still working it out, but there's a lot of potential there. > give the target directory on the host. Install must have been looking for: > > ftp://142.58.14.242/e:/dists/2.1.0-RELEASE > > is my assumption. I may be wrong. Am I? I'm noting that this should be Sort of. The install first tries the `naked' path to whatever resource it's looking for (e.g. dists/bin/*) and only tries the path/${relname} directory if the first attempt fails. It tries about 4 probes into the source media, actually, using different combinations of ${relname} and "dists/" prefix information. > I would also suggest that for user-specified URLs, that the default path be > set to the same tree structure on the CD, so that the Well, I just use the user-specified ones alone. How do I know what weird formats they've specified? Best not to modify it. > Here's a suggestion: It would be nice to have an option in the install > whereupon the user could drop to the shell and do the ftping of dists > manually, like the standard method used in 1.1. I realize that there's a There's no space for an ftp client - what you think of as `ftp' is sysinstall's own ftp client driver. Maybe somebody else feels like writing a CLI for it, I dunno. :-) Jordan
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