From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 23 06:29:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA18647 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 06:29:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bureau-de-poste.utcc.utoronto.ca (bureau-de-poste.utcc.utoronto.ca [128.100.132.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA18631 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 06:28:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from atka.feut.utoronto.ca ([142.150.33.89]) by bureau-de-poste.utcc.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <802667(4)>; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 09:28:48 -0400 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960823132837.009d29c0@mailbox1.utcc.utoronto.ca> X-Sender: martin.loeffler@mailbox1.utcc.utoronto.ca X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 09:28:37 -0400 To: tcg@ime.net From: Martin Loeffler Subject: Re: FTP Install Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 12:30 PM 8/21/96 -0400, Gary Chrysler wrote: > >They are expected to be setup exactly the same way FreeBSD.org >has it's tree structure. > >FreeBSD/version/ .. >-Enjoy This has to be the most ... challenging install I've ever had the pleasure of attempting. In attempting an FTP - based install, I know it can log in via ftp, from connecting to a local machine. However, no matter how I specify the URL, it refuses to find the distribution. Ok, I've made a mistake - I'll try one, many, all of the distribution sites that are listed and guess what? It has the same problem with them. As a matter of fact, the install program returns an error so quickly, that I doubt it ever tried to connect. As an aside, what is it about ATAPI that makes it *so* hard to install from CD-ROMs based on the standard? If DOS can do it (and Linux, and NetBSD and, well...), why can't we? M. -- "Excitement. Adventure. A Jedi craves not these things", but then I never said I was a Jedi, did I? Martin Loeffler, Curator of Computing Technology Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto martin.loeffler@utoronto.ca