From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 22 21:20:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA22557 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:20:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA22551 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:20:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA28478; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:19:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:19:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Bond, Jeffery" cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Problems installing 2.2.7-RELEASE (X322fnts.inf) In-Reply-To: <711344C31ACDD1118B94006097827D5B65C713@exchange.nectech.co.uk > Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Bond, Jeffery wrote: > I've checked my boot floppy image and it seems to exactly match > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.7-RELEASE/floppies/boot.flp. Even the MD5 checksum? > I even had a dig around in the source for sysinstall (dist.c), but > couldn't make much sense of it. I gathered that it only needs a .inf > files for distributions that come as chunks, like bin.aa bin.ab ... > etc. All of the XF86322 files are just plain .tgz files, so they > shouldn't need a .inf file. Is this right? Shouldn't. Dunno what's going on. > > > > > > I am having some trouble installing 2.2.7-RELEASE. The machine I am > > > installing to does not have a CDROM or internet connection, so I am > > > installing via FTP over a LAN from a win95 machine running the WAR FTP > > > daemon - fetching the files from a local CDROM drive. > > > > > > Basically, when it starts to install XF86, the installation stops. I get > > a > > > message similar to 'FTP shutdown called'. After turning on the DEBUG > > option, > > > it became clearer: The installation program seems to be trying to fetch > > > 'XF86322/X322fnts.inf'. The FTP server replies with 'Permission denied', > > > because the file does not exist on the CD (or on ftp.freebsd.org). > > > > That file doesn't exist. Try re-downloading the boot floppy from > > ftp.freebsd.org. If it still shows up I'll try to confirm it here, but it > > may be (yet another) sysinstall bug. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message