Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 09:44:02 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> Cc: James Robinson <james@hermes.cybernetics.net>, FreeBSD hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: 2.0 Install comments Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950111094326.18106B-100000@periodic.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <17194.789798660@freefall.cdrom.com>
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On Tue, 10 Jan 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I've just installed 2.0R onto two machines using whatever floppies the sym > > links point to these days. I was amazed -- I couldn't believe the improvement > > in interface that has happened. This is really a great leap forward! > > Thanks! > > > I was installing across the local network, but WITHOUT DNS / nameserver. > > Nowhere did it ask for the IP address of the host machine (i.e. the one with > > the distribution on it). I could escape into the subshell and cat it into > > /etc/hosts, which worked for a while. After it exploded one of the > > Huh? You selected ftp installation, right? And then you went down the > menu to where it said "I want to select my own" for the ftp site, and > you typed in the name or URL of the ftp site using an IP address. Right? > > > Really really slick and relatively painless. Wonderful work (Poul?) ! > > Poul and I, yes. I saw the same thing, maybe I should have spoken up.... ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 7608 Topton St. | New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx (301) 459-2316 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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