Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:46:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Brian Howell <bdhowell@genwell.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying to FTP 2.1.5 from mounted CD-ROM Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961021234545.4986Z-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <326C18EB.41C67EA6@genwell.com>
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On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Brian Howell wrote: > We've got several FreeBSD machines running. Two of them are > equipped with compatible SCSI CD-ROM drives. > > I want to be able to "sysinstall" additional packages on several > of the machines from the distribution CD-ROM mounted remotely--by > FTP. > > I followed the instructions in the CD-ROM's documentation; creating > the FTP user using "vipw" and mounting the CD. > > I've then tried dozens of URL permutations trying to get "sysinstall" > on another machine on our subnet to see the CD-ROM. > > The CD-ROM is there and properly mounted. I can see it outside of > "sysinstall." What am I doing wrong? Set the FTP failure mode to 'retry' on the sysinstall options page. This isn't exactly documented. This causes sysinstall to try some alternate paths when ftp fails, one of which is the setup for the cdrom. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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