From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 18 16:20:36 2004 Return-Path: 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 BB79F16A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:20:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lakermmtao01.cox.net (lakermmtao01.cox.net [68.230.240.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 302A543D31 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:20:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from dolphin.local.net ([68.11.30.24]) by lakermmtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-117-20041022) with ESMTP <20041118162035.QXMJ22871.lakermmtao01.cox.net@dolphin.local.net>; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 11:20:35 -0500 Received: from dolphin.local.net (localhost.local.net [127.0.0.1]) by dolphin.local.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id iAIGKYO1019488; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:20:34 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:20:29 -0600 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" To: CHris Rich Message-ID: <20041118102029.5550e523@dolphin.local.net> In-Reply-To: <8292450b04111807402ece061d@mail.gmail.com> References: <8292450b04111807402ece061d@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12b (GTK+ 1.2.10; amd64-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying to install from ftp X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:20:36 -0000 On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:40:08 -0600, CHris Rich wrote: > When i try to install some extra things from ftp using > /stand/sysinstall i keep getting unable to extract distribution try > again? of course i try again and it still doesn't work. When I first > tried to install from ftp it gave me an error that 5.3RC1 could not be > found on server..so in the options I changed it to any but I still am > unable to download it. If you're trying to get stuff specific to that version, you probably need to use one of the "snapshot" servers, as release candidates may not be available on all servers. > output of uname -a: > FreeBSD arwen.localhost.com 5.3-RC1 FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 #0: Mon Nov 24 > 18:31:21 CST 2003 > > So what am I doing wrong? Not to insult your intelligence, but...you *are* doing this as root, right? :-) -- Conrad J. Sabatier -- "In Unix veritas"