From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 16 05:44:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA24847 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 05:44:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA24839 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 05:44:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (fullermd@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA12981; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 05:44:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 05:44:34 -0700 (PDT) From: The Devil Himself To: Sam Hepworth cc: "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: FTP Install 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, 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| *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*