Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 18:59:37 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: stable@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: RC2 wrongness in INSTALL.TXT Message-ID: <20010401185936.A322@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
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I've pulled down the RC2 candidate, and have it on CD on one machine,
which I'm then using as the source of an FTP install to another machine
(which has a non-functional CDROM, natch).
INSTALL.TXT in the root of the release says
[...]
1.1 Installing from a network CDROM
--- -------------------------------
If you simply wish to install from a local CDROM drive then see the
Quick Start section. If you don't have a CDROM drive on your system
and wish to use a FreeBSD distribution CD in the CDROM drive of
another system to which you have network connectivity, there are also
several ways of going about it:
1. If you would be able to FTP install FreeBSD directly from the CDROM
drive in some FreeBSD machine, it's quite easy: You simply add the
following line to the password file (using the vipw command):
ftp:*:99:99::0:0:FTP:/cdrom:/sbin/nologin
And anyone else on your network will now be able to choose a Media
type of FTP and type in: ``ftp://<machine with CDROM drive>'' after
picking "URL" in the ftp sites menu.
[...]
Not strictly true.
1. You need to give the ftp user a password, or quote the line as
[...]
ftp::99:00::0:0:FTP:/cdrom:/sbin/nologin
Warning: This may allow anyone on the local network (or Internet)
to FTP to your machine, which may not be desirable. If so, use
passwd(1) to assign a password to the "ftp" user.
2. sysinstall can't find the release. Looking at the debug terminal
it tries various versions of pub/FreeBSD, /FreeBSD, and so on.
You need to go in to the options menu and set the release name to
"any". This is documented inside sysinstall. We should probably
add
You will also need to set the release name to "any" in the
installer's "Options" menu for this to work.
to INSTALL.TXT.
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FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/
FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/
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