Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 05:44:34 -0700 (PDT) From: The Devil Himself <fullermd@narcissus.ml.org> To: Sam Hepworth <SAM@hyp.dk> Cc: "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: FTP Install Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970416054325.12804B-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <c=DK%a=DK400%p=HYP%l=IDUN-970416130134Z-175@idun.hyp.dk>
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On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Sam Hepworth wrote: > I want to install FreeBSD via FTP. > > I have an AIX machine on which I mount the FreeBSD-CD. The CD is not > mounted as /cdrom but I have made a symlink to the real mountpoint. > > I set the URL of the AIX machine to ftp://192.168.0.1//cdrom. > > I use my own user to FTP to AIX machine. Success. > > Then I get an error that the install program can not get the 'dists' or > something. > > What is wrong? > > /Sam I think you want to install via NFS. FTP install is just for installing from one of the ftp.freebsd.org mirror sites, so it can't find the pub/FreeBSD/... directory. You want to install via NFS to do it that way. Hope it helps!! *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* |FreeBSD is good. FreeBSD is our friend. UNIX is our god.| *Micro$oft is bad. Micro$oft causes problems.* |MicroBSD??? I DON'T THINK SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!| |"I hate quotes in signature files" :-} MAtthew Fuller| *fullermd@narcissus.ml.org FreeBSD junkie* |http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd Westminster College| *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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