From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 7 15:30:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from felix.cheetahusa.net (felix.cheetahusa.net [216.133.11.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D44137B400 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:30:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from falcon (falcon.cheetahusa.net [192.168.10.139]) by felix.cheetahusa.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g17NSwa00355; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:29:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from craig@CheetahUSA.net) From: "Craig Burgess" To: "Lane Holcombe" , Subject: RE: Ftp installation problems Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:31:51 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <200202072247.g17MlZ013897@joeandlane.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is this a "fresh install" (started w/ floppy) or from an existing installation? I just (within the past couple of hours) did a floppy-based FTP install of 4.5-RELEASE. craig > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of > Lane Holcombe > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 2:48 PM > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Ftp installation problems > > > I'm trying to install 4.5-RELEASE from ftpX.freebsd.org > but each time I > try sysinstall tells me that directory > ftpX.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/4.5-RELEASE/y > adda-yadda- > yadda does not exist. > > I see that "snapshots" doesn't have anything of value > but I can't > figure out to tell sysinstall to use the "releases" tree. > > any guidance is appreciated. > > thanks > > lane (holcombe) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message