From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 24 02:22:25 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA09088 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 02:22:25 -0800 Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA09081 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 02:22:20 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA00353; Thu, 23 Nov 1995 18:21:24 -0800 Message-Id: <199511240221.SAA00353@rah.star-gate.com> X-Authentication-Warning: rah.star-gate.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.2 7/18/95 To: "Marc G. Fournier" cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.1 release sysinstall In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 24 Nov 1995 04:20:59 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 18:21:19 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >>> "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