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Date:      Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:21:17 +0800 (HKT)
From:      Joe Lee <joelee@col.com.hk>
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.OSF.3.93.961022151604.23741B-100000@saturn.col.com.hk>
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?
> 
> Brian Howell
> 
Hi,

I had similar experience with this. what is suprising is that i can even
install via NFS to read the CD. 

When i enter the ip-address in the URL instead of hostname, then suddenly
FTP installation work for me.

Who knows what's wrong.






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