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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