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From: Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.berkeley.edu>
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Cc: Johan Nilsson <johan.h.nilsson@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ftp install / base not found
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On May 11 at 17:06, "Andy Reitz" wrote:

> On Thu, 11 May 2006, Johan Nilsson wrote:
> 
> > But can you do a ftp-install from an archived version? If, how?
> 
> Johan,
> 
> While I have never tried this, sysinstall appears to support entering
> non-standard FTP URLs. After you choose the FTP option, you can choose the
> FTP server. The second option in this list is 'URL', which allows you to
> type in any FTP site -- and as I presume, the ftp-archive site will work
> if entered here.

I will give this a try tomorrow.  Thanks to you both for your help, you
are both FreeBSD Olympic Champions.

One unresolved question remains:  Does the "any" suggestion have any
effect?  Has anybody ever used it successfully?

Mike