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From: "Irvine Short" <ishort@pcm.co.za>
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Subject: Re: FTP install from CD does not work.. Does Now
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Hi Again

> > However, when I try and do an ftp install from another new machine it 
> > successfully logs in and downloads the floppies/root.flp file but 
> > then looks for bin/* files whuch are not there.
> > 
> > On the cd they are under dists/bin/* and etc.
 
Well, I did as suggested to do a lndir to put all the directories in 
the right place and then tried again.

No joy, as of course anon ftp does a chroot to /usr/ftp and then 
/cdrom no longer exists.

Ho hum. Tell install to use my name and password, but it does not 
appear to work. Is it supposed to? I wasted lots of time juggling 
things around before I realized this, then went back to anon FTP 
after having mounted the cd on /usr/pub/cdrom and done a lndir 
../../../cdrom/dists . and voila! everything worked.


Regards,

Irvine Short

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