From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 14:11:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA07466 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 May 1996 14:11:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA07461 for ; Wed, 29 May 1996 14:11:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA00304; Wed, 29 May 1996 14:13:28 -0700 Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 14:13:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Scott Muma cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 29 May 1996, Scott Muma wrote: > We are trying to install FreeBSD 2.1.0 via FTP. Everything appears to be > working correctly up until the program tries to download the root > distribution files but can't seem to find them. It then tells us to fix > the problem, but since we can't see what the problem is we aren't sure > what to do from here. ftp from where? If you are trying to ftp from a mounted CD change the FTP failure mode to 'retry'. It should find it then. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major