From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 28 18:07:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA25449 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 18:07:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts8-line14.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.78]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA25433; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 18:07:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA00243; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 18:07:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 18:07:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Richard J Kuhns cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5 CD Installation question (Jordan?) In-Reply-To: <199608281341.IAA20002@sparcmill.grauel.com> 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, 28 Aug 1996, Richard J Kuhns wrote: > 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. Ooh. I did not know that. (And I misread the URL). How about making a symlink in your home directory to /cdrom, and changing the URL to ftp://C/cdrom? > I believe that would try to hit the subdirectory `cdrom' in the ftp user's > $HOME. Possibly. It depends if sysinstall places an implicit '/' before the path for force it to start in the root directory (whatever it is -- in anonymous it's ~ftp). > > 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. I haven't tried that option, and if I remember correctly at some point in time it was broken. Jordan could fill the details here. > 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. I'm out of ideas at this point, other than biting the bullet and mounting the cd under ~ftp/pub. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major