From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 11 20:40:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2766916A507 for ; Thu, 11 May 2006 20:40:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johan.h.nilsson@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 383AA43D5D for ; Thu, 11 May 2006 20:40:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from johan.h.nilsson@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id i11so30385nzi for ; Thu, 11 May 2006 13:40:11 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=oMPuWExc122SPA+saY3U7epqaQzKf0RGEHvkl5D0fEYtYZR3Gq1/ZhX/n2jPOKQNBXYToaP1SpZqmpPj4qtKqS23/AjeQqWedjJP7GndWcUKwBgLzMve3wXsc3OB9AQbZVNuQnRVoa2p+Ijb/OwuESjwjW7jL8vtg5labsbkYGw= Received: by 10.36.177.6 with SMTP id z6mr1556165nze; Thu, 11 May 2006 13:40:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.132.7 with HTTP; Thu, 11 May 2006 13:40:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 22:40:11 +0200 From: "Johan Nilsson" To: "Andy Reitz" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20060511153720.GB42786@malcolm.berkeley.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftp install / base not found X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 20:40:13 -0000 But can you do a ftp-install from an archived version? If, how? Regards, Johan On 5/11/06, Andy Reitz wrote: > > On Thu, 11 May 2006, Mike Hunter wrote: > > > Dear FreeBSD Questions, > > > > I have a not-so-new laptop that I tried to install FBSD on yesterday. > > This laptop can only be made to boot from floppies (usb boot doesn't > work, > > no cdrom) and I happen to have some 5.3-RELEASE boot floppies laying > > around. > > > > I am successfully able to get into the installer, format the disk, > create > > new FS's, DHCP, select the "Minimal" distribution and try the FTP > install. > > But, no matter what I do, the ftp servers never have the > distribution. I > > tried several, including ftp.freebsd.org. > > > > I have had this problem repeatedly over the years, always with older > > distributions. The error message says that I can go to the Options men= u > > and change my distribution to "any", but that never works either. > > > > What's the story? Do older bases get removed from the ftp servers, or > is > > there a different string I should be using in options (I tried > > 5.3-STABLE), or am I missing something? Please don't make me create ne= w > > boot floopies! :) > > Dear Befuddled, > > If you FTP to 'ftp.freebsd.org' and poke around, you'll find this > directory listing in the '/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/' directory: > > ncftp .../FreeBSD/releases/i386 > dir > drwxr-xr-x 19 110 0 1024 Apr 2 00:40 2.2.9-RELEASE > lrwxr-xr-x 1 110 0 10 Nov 25 18:36 4.11 moved to > ftp-archive -> README.TXT > drwxrwxr-x 2 110 0 512 Apr 11 2005 5.0-CURRENT > lrwxr-xr-x 1 110 0 10 Dec 19 18:36 5.3 has moved to > ftp-archive -> README.TXT > drwxrwxr-x 19 110 0 1024 May 9 2005 5.4-RELEASE > drwxrwxr-x 19 110 0 1024 Feb 4 09:17 5.5-BETA1 > drwxrwxr-x 19 110 0 1024 Mar 14 18:58 5.5-BETA4 > drwxrwxr-x 13 110 0 512 Nov 4 2005 6.0-RELEASE > drwxrwxr-x 13 110 0 1024 Feb 4 09:18 6.1-BETA1 > drwxrwxr-x 14 110 0 1024 May 8 00:52 6.1-RELEASE > drwxrwxr-x 8 110 0 512 Apr 1 07:50 ISO-IMAGES > -rw-rw-r-- 1 110 0 637 Nov 23 19:21 README.TXT > > As you can see, they have a nice symlink which states that FreeBSD 5.3 ha= s > been moved to the 'ftp-archive'. Here is the relevant section from > README.TXT: > > NOTE: Old releases are available at: > > ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/ > > And if you go and poke around on that server, you will find all of the > bits for 5.3-RELEASE. > > HTH, > -Andy. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >