Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 20:10:54 +0200 From: Are Bryne <are.bryne@communique.no> To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: FTP installation Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960401181054.0033b344@www.communique.no>
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Hello,
I'm an NT person, and in need of a highly configurable sendmail that is
freeware. Having stumbled upon FreeBSD, I was delighted to see the wonderful
results of your efforts. And to have the possibility of FTP installation!
(I am very :-)
But... I have a problem.
I've managed to configure a computer with the boot floppy. The filesystem
and partitions are ok. The network card is ok. IP-settings ditto. Everything
uneccessary is disabled (using -c, etc.)
I am able to specify a distribution, and then media. Choosing commit/extract
will work; the machine connects to a site, cds to the directory...
But - having chosen e.g. the minimum distribution (compat1x compat20 bins
manpages dict), the download and extraction process stops after compat20,
telling me that it
"Couldn't extract all of the distributions. This may be because the
following distributions are not available on the installation media you've
chosen:
bin manpages dict"
The type of media is ftp.
I've been trying several sites, all give the same messages.
A strange thing I've noticed is that the installation program doesn't always
seem to ftp to a site before giving me the message. The message seems to be
cached...
Do you have a clue as to why I can't access the bin, etc. parts of the
distributions?
Thanks in advance,
Are Bryne
Communiqu=E9 DA Email: admin@communique.no
Gaustadall=E9en 21 Phone: +47 22 95 86 77
N-0371 Oslo, Norway
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