From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 15 11: 1: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB83A15472 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:00:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.164.76]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990315190129.JSSS682101.mta1-rme@wocker>; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 08:01:29 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: "David Shanes" Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 08:00:34 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Installing 3.1-R via FTP Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <00c801be6f13$9b72db10$1d43a8c0@shanes1.personalogic.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990315190129.JSSS682101.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 15 Mar 99, at 10:42, David Shanes wrote: > I tried to install via FTP on Friday. Everything seemed kosher. It > logged in and started downloading everything is /bin. > When it tried to install the next distribution set, it failed and said > that it could not find the directory...? I was logged into ftp.freebsd.org. > I switched to other sites and none of them worked either. Not that it may be relevant, but I installed from a DOS partition over the weekend. The instructions said to use c:/freebsd/bin, but that would not work. So I tried c:/bin, which did work. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message