From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 23 20:54:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA06306 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 20:54:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cruz.isle.net (root@cruz.isle.net [204.140.227.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA06296 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 20:54:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from john (router1port13.isle.net [204.140.227.236]) by cruz.isle.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA07488 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 20:51:08 -0700 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19961024035149.0093ee7c@isle.net> X-Sender: johns@isle.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 20:51:49 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org From: John Scharles Subject: Re: Installing 2.1.5 from my ftp site Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thanks to the replies I've gotten I've managed to cobble up a scheme that works. When I tried to symlink /cdrom under ~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.5-RELEASE it wouldn't allow anonymous ftp into that directory (permissions looked okay but no go....if anyone can tell me how to do this I'd really like anonymous access to my cdrom from ftp!). What I finally had to do was link /cdrom/dists to FreeBSD/2.1.5-RELEASE under my home directory and ftp in as me. I saw nothing about an FTP error flag under the options menu where I went to change my ftp login, but it worked okay never the less. Thanks to all the wrote! John At 06:36 PM 10/23/96 -0700, you wrote: >On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, John Scharles wrote: > >> I have 2.1.5R running on a network and would like to use its CD ROM drive to >> allow other machines on the network to install from it. When I tried to ftp >> from the install floppy it tells me that it can't find the files. >> >> How should I set up the file structure on my FreeBSD machine....I tried >> linking the /cdrom/dists directory into the ftp directory as 2.1.5-RELEASE >> but this didn't make it! Is there anything special I need to do to allow >> anonymous ftp to the cd drive? > >1. Mount the cd under ~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.5-RELEASE >2. Tell your installers to set the FTP Error flag in Options to 'retry'. > >This is an "undocumented feature" in sysinstall. And I don't mean a bug, >I mean an undocumented feature. :-) > >Doug White | University of Oregon >Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant >http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > John Scharles