From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 26 14:39:16 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA19363 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Dec 1995 14:39:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from ferrari.sfu.ca (ferrari.sfu.ca [142.58.110.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA19358 for ; Tue, 26 Dec 1995 14:39:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from gumby.ve7zd.ampr.org ([142.58.14.242]) by ferrari.sfu.ca with SMTP (8.7.1/SFU-2.6H) id OAA10782 for (from mcquiggi@sfu.ca); Tue, 26 Dec 1995 14:39:08 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199512262239.OAA10782@ferrari.sfu.ca> X-Sender: mcquiggi@ferrari.sfu.ca X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 14:38:47 -0800 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Kevin McQuiggin Subject: Install problems Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi! I'm having a problem installing 2.1. I am an experienced 1.1 user. I have the 2.1 CDROM. My FreeBSD box does NOT have a CDROM drive. My Windows machine, however, does have a CDROM. I run QVTNET on the Windows machine, and it supports an ftp server. I want to install via ftp. This is the same configuration that I used to install 1.1. I booted my FreeBSD box from the floppy. I followed all the steps, and chose the "developer" configuration for dists to install. I chose ftp as the media type, and specified my Windows machine as the URL: ftp://142.58.14.242. I had changed the login name to "anonymous" in the "options" menu, and pointed the anonymous login directory to E:\DISTS on the Windows machine. I supplied correct values for my hostname, gateway, IP address etc. My Windows machine is on the local subnet. A connection is made to the Windows box, but I receive a message to the effect that "distributions are not available on the server specified", and it lists all of the packages (bin, manpages, etc) in the "developer" selection. The ftp connection remains open to the Windows machine. Undaunted, I thought that perhaps the initial login dir should be the root dir of the CD, and so tried E:\ instead of E:\DISTS as the "anonymous" login point. I also tried "ftp passive". Nothing worked. I tried a clean install from the boot floppy, and this time specified "ftp.freebsd.org" as the server to install from. No go, same messages about packages being unavilable from the server. Same with ftp passive from ftp.freebsd.org. And yes, I changed the user name back to "ftp" (using WHAP!) before trying the standard site. I tried using anonymous as the user name. Still no go. I tried other standard sites such as "ftp.leo.org" and ftp.synapse.com". Still no luck. I yearn for the days of 1.1 when I could do this myself by running ftp and retrieving and extracting the dists manually. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Is there any way to dump the menu system and get to a shell prompt from whence ftp can be run? VTY4 doesn't seem to install ftp in /stand, and "ls" doesn't work so that I can't find it on my own. It must be there somewhere! Thanks, Kevin --- Kevin McQuiggin VE7ZD mcquiggi@sfu.ca