From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 4 09:23:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA20670 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 09:23:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA20663 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 09:23:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-usr11.etinc.com (dialup-usr11.etinc.com [204.141.95.132]) by etinc.com (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA10218; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 12:28:17 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970404122027.00b32834@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 12:20:30 -0500 To: Michael Smith From: dennis Subject: FTP install Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 02:07 AM 4/5/97 +0930, Michael Smith wrote: >dennis stands accused of saying: >> >> You're the first one to tell me that it actually does work....What is your >> FTP server? >> Freebsd or some other animal? If freebsd, what version? > >Our build machine was obviously running 2.2, the GP workstation a >2.2-GAMMA-vintage from early this year (maybe Jan or so) and the >notebooks were running an old 2.2 (october or so last year), but were >upgraded as part of the testing. > >It's perhaps worth mentioning that we decided to standardise on FTP, >rather than NFS, for the install as it's somewhat faster and requires >less setup on the source machine, particularly if the source is a >notebook that you've just temporarily thrown onto a customer's >network. We did, however, do several dozen NFS installs before coming >to this decision. I cant get a local FTP load to work (this would be just dandy for us). It doesnt find the directory on a non-anonymous FTP to the server. Whats the trick if your using the "other URL" option? Dennis