From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 28 06:40:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA27467 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 06:40:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from watson.grauel.com (watson.grauel.com [199.233.104.36]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA27461; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 06:40:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sparcmill.grauel.com (sparcmill.grauel.com [199.233.104.34]) by watson.grauel.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA01139; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 08:43:38 -0500 (EST) Received: by sparcmill.grauel.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA20002; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 08:41:08 -0500 Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 08:41:08 -0500 Message-Id: <199608281341.IAA20002@sparcmill.grauel.com> From: Richard J Kuhns To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5 CD Installation question (Jordan?) In-Reply-To: References: <199608272113.QAA12835@watson.grauel.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug White writes: > On Tue, 27 Aug 1996, Richard J Kuhns wrote: > > However.... what combination of Release Name and URL do I need to use to > > do the install this way? The CD is mounted on machine C as "/cdrom"; with > > the 2.1 sysinstall I could set (in the Options Menu) Release Name to blank, > > ftp user as myself, specify an URL of ftp://C//cdrom, and let it rip. The > > 2.1.5 sysinstall informs me that it can't CD to `', and can't find any of > > the distributions I'd requested. > > Eh? I have no clue why that URL works, it points to C//cdrom on the > local machine (whatever that means). No, `C' is the machine with the CDROM, and (per Jordan) the double `/' after the machine name means `start from root' instead of `start from $HOME'. The laptop logs into machine `C' with no problems, it just can't find a distribution after it gets there. > > The way you should do this is configure Ethernet device 'lp0' with a fake > network on both machines (ie 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2) and then do the ftp I did, except I used 2 real, otherwise unused numbers on our local network. > transfer. Use a URL like: > > ftp://10.0.0.1/cdrom/ > I believe that would try to hit the subdirectory `cdrom' in the ftp user's $HOME. > Realize this does an ANONYMOUS ftp transfer unless you configure otherwise > on the options screen. I do -- I stated above that I set the ftp user to myself. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > Any more suggestions? I can reload the laptop either by hitting ftp.freebsd.org or by installing 2.1-RELEASE and applying all of the ctm updates, but I'm holding off in case someone (Jordan?) wants more info. Thanks... -- Richard Kuhns rjk@grauel.com PO Box 6249 Tel: (317)477-6000 \ 100 Sawmill Road x319 Lafayette, IN 47903 (800)489-4891 /