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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 But can you do a ftp-install from an archived version?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.

I was able to install 5.3-RELEASE using this as the specified URL:

ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/5.3-RELEASE

What bothers me is this verbiage from sysinstall:

"Only the Primary sites are guaranteed to carry the full range of possible
distributions."

I'm ok with having to use an archive ftp server for the crufty
distribution I'm trying to install, but don't lie to me and say I don't
have to!  *sniff*

Mike