From owner-freebsd-questions  Sat Jul 15 22:06:26 1995
Return-Path: questions-owner
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA05728
          for questions-outgoing; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 22:06:26 -0700
Received: from bubba.tribe.com (bubba.tribe.com [199.35.172.122])
          by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA05722
          for <freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com>; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 22:06:23 -0700
Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.tribe.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA00456; Sat, 15 Jul 1995 22:05:23 -0700
From: Archie Cobbs <archie@bubba.tribe.com>
Message-Id: <199507160505.WAA00456@bubba.tribe.com>
Subject: Re: 2.0.5-50622-SNAP install woes
To: rjs@clark.net (Ron Steele)
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 22:05:22 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.87.9507152208.A203-0100000@localhost> from "Ron Steele" at Jul 15, 95 10:31:08 pm
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24]
Content-Type: text
Content-Length: 869       
Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk


> I am still trying to get 2.0.5 installed.  I have it on a local 2.0R 
> system, but can't seem to get it FTP'ed via the install program.  The
> network is ok, as I can FTP via the command line after doing alt F4.
> There are no error messages other than the generic failed message 
> in the box on the install program, alt F1 reveals nothing.  I can only
> assume that there is a problem in the directory path, ie the install 
> program is appending some directory onto what I give it in the dialog 
> box that I don't have in my directory tree.

I found that the install program had "2.0.5-ALPHA" instead of
"2.0.5-RELEASE" as the directory name, and so it would fail.
I wasn't sure if I had the most recent floppy, though...

The way to fix this is to choose "other location" and type in
your own URL: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-RELEASE ...

-Archie