Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 10:30:30 PDT From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: FTP install is *almost* there... Message-ID: <95Jun5.103043pdt.49859@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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- The FTP install is getting closer... however, I need to be able to use an FTP server running on an alternate port. The URL format allows this, as ftp://beta.xerox.com:4514/..., but it doesn't appear that the installer parses this format, as I get a message something like "Looking up host beta.xerox.com:4514". - I have two ed cards in my machine, and I was stupid enough to not write down the configuration before newfs'ing my old /usr partition. I have been trying to get the ed0 that's in the distributed kernel to work, but I could really use a "ping"; as it is I have to try different "ifconfig" commands and then try the install again and see if it can find the hostname and doesn't print "ed0: device timeout". I could also use a "netstat" command; I'm sure the routing tables are confused but I can't check because I don't have a "netstat -r"... - One nit, the "Other" ftp site doesn't "remember" what I typed in it like the username and password fields do. - Also, having *all* the options in the "Options" menu be checkboxes is kind of confusing. What does it mean to have both "FTP Abort" and "FTP Reselect" on? What does it mean to have both "FTP active" and "FTP passive" on? What does it mean to check the "Exit" checkbox? It seems like it would make more sense for the "Abort/Reselect" and "active/passive" to be radiobuttons, not checkboxes, and for "FTP userpass", "clear" and "exit" to be menu items, not checkboxes. Can you mix types within one dialog box? - There should be an "F1 for help" on the network setup menu; I pressed it in hope and there was actually something useful there, but I looked several other places before I looked there, just because there wasn't anything that said to press F1. - The network device doesn't seem to get ifconfig'd multiple times; I tried selecting the ftp media with ed0 device several times, each time with different LINKx flags, and each time doing an "ifconfig ed0" on vty4 shows no LINKx flag set. This is even more obvious when I went back to the media menu and switched from ed0 to ed1; ed1 is not ifconfig'd and the default route still points to ed0. - I'd reccommend more text for the host resolution failure message; right now it says: Cannot resolve hostname `beta.xerox.com'! Are you sure your name server and/or gateway values are set properly? How about "Are you sure your network card is configured properly?", since I'm pretty sure that's what is going wrong in this case (especially since "ed0: device timeout" keeps appearing on the debugging screen...) - My machine simply hangs when I select "exit" -- it says syncing disks... 4 4 2 done _ (where "_" is the cursor). No rebooting action. 2.0-SNAP950412 would reboot the machine just fine. Bill
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