Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 18:21:19 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.1 release sysinstall Message-ID: <199511240221.SAA00353@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 Nov 1995 04:20:59 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.951124042002.3328B-100000@hub.org>
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>>> "Marc G. Fournier" said:
> On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>
> > > Given that the current sysinstall has a list of FreeBSD mirror sites
> > > from where one can do a net install, shouldn't net install be able to pi
ck
> > > a site based on net response to do the site sites and load on the
> > > target system?
> >
> > Uh. I can't parse this?
> >
> I think that what he's asking for is that sysinstall pings each
> one in the list to automatically find the closest, or at least fastest,
> site nearest to him...
Yeap, you see when I tried to do the netinstall from ftp.freebsd.org
it was a hazzle due to the load on ftp.freebsd.org so just because a
site may be close to you is not necessarily the best site to do a
netinstall.
As for doing an install from a second drive, I couldn't figured out what to
type in the sysinstall's UFS entry field . I tried different ways
of specifying my second drive and they *all* failed.
Tnks,
Amancio
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