Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 10:43:54 +1100 From: Peter Marelas <Peter.Marelas@fulcrum.com.au> To: questions@freebsd.org, mcquiggi@sfu.ca Subject: Re: Install problems Message-ID: <199512262343.KAA12095@hosaka>
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Wed Dec 27 09:20:47 1995 > X-Sender: mcquiggi@ferrari.sfu.ca > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 14:38:47 -0800 > To: questions@freebsd.org > From: Kevin McQuiggin <mcquiggi@sfu.ca> > 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. Then you dont need a "gateway". > > 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. > Pressing ALT-F3, I think it is, gives you a shell, try ftp to your windows box, and see what you get as well.. Try to mimic what freebsd "would" be doing.. Do you see any errors? > 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! > I installed it the same way.. 2 things.. make sure anyone can login with ftp. second.. the tree structure should look exactly the same as ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE that is.. bin/ src/ des/ etc... But only include the directories/files you want to install.. so.. If all this sits under foo.com.au:/freebsd give freebsd exactly that.. and the structure would be.. e:\freebsd\bin e:\freebsd\src e:\freebsd\des Peter
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