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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!!

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