From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 30 08:19:37 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA07157 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 08:19:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hil-img-9.compuserve.com (hil-img-9.compuserve.com [149.174.177.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA07152 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 08:19:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from 70673.3111@compuserve.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by hil-img-9.compuserve.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/2.17) id LAA14518 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 11:19:34 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 11:14:01 -0500 From: Jeffrey Vehrs <70673.3111@compuserve.com> Subject: install via PLIP problem To: Blind.Copy.Receiver@compuserve.com Message-ID: <199901301116_MC2-6894-1E24@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm giving you a little background of how it was set up. I have a laptop and FreeBSD box with laplink cable attached to both. FreeBSD box is the host. It has the CDROM drive. The goal is to install FreeBSD from the FBSD box w/ CDROM drive onto the laptop via PLIP. This is how it works: iceman <-------> cooljoe IP address 10.0.0.3 10.0.0.4 iceman ==> FBSD box w/ CDROM drive(host) cooljoe ==> laptop I was able to ping each other on both boxes. Also, I can FTPs to each other on both boxes. Now, the problem is that I could NOT install FreeBSD from iceman thru /stand/sysinstall. I've already add 'ftp:*:99:99::0:0:FTP:/cdrom:/sbin/nologin' via vipw. The 'err' msg said, "Warning: Can't CD to '2.2.6-RELEASE' distribution on this FTP server". I can FTP manually to /cdrom without a problem. Did I miss something here? TIA. -- Jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message