Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:25:19 -0600 From: CHris Rich <freebsdnews@gmail.com> To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying to install from ftp Message-ID: <8292450b04111808254d1f41b8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20041118102029.5550e523@dolphin.local.net> References: <8292450b04111807402ece061d@mail.gmail.com> <20041118102029.5550e523@dolphin.local.net>
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Yes I am doing it as root and my intelligence can't be insulted, I've done dumber things On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:20:29 -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> wrote: > On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:40:08 -0600, CHris Rich <freebsdnews@gmail.com> > 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 <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas" >
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