From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 17 18:45:33 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6819016A404 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:45:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smurphy@calarts.edu) Received: from echo.calarts.edu (echo.calarts.edu [198.182.157.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E43013C465 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:45:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smurphy@calarts.edu) Received: from echo.calarts.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 0298E101E3ED; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:26:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from muse2.calarts.edu (muse2.calarts.edu [198.182.157.28]) by echo.calarts.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E73081018F64; Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:26:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [198.182.157.179] (dhcp7179.calarts.edu [198.182.157.179]) (authenticated bits=0) by muse2.calarts.edu (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l3HIZ1eR008700 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:35:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from smurphy@calarts.edu) Message-ID: <46251350.7080009@calarts.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:34:56 -0700 From: Sean Murphy User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) To: pjklist@ekahuna.com References: <20070417115120883.AAA300@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> <20070417164314.GA2664@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20070417164314.GA2664@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 198.182.157.28 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is FTP install broken? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:45:33 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 04:51:19AM -0700, Philip J. Koenig wrote: For probably the 2nd time in history for me, I am trying an FTP install. It's been a good while since I've done a FBSD install, and I assumed things had gotten more polished since 4.x.. I'm trying to install the 200703 snapshot of 6.2-STABLE, and no matter what server I select, no matter what variant I try of various length paths specified in a custom URL to a server that I *know* has the files ([1]ftp.freebsd.org), I get the following message: Warning: Can't find the '6.2-STABLE-200703' distribution on this FTP server. You may need to visit a different server for the release you are trying to fetch or go to the Options menu and to (sic) set the release name to explicitly match what's available on [2]ftp.freebsd.org (or set to "any"). Would you like to select another FTP server? I am booting from the 200703 snapshot i386 bootdisk-only ISO image. I don't think FTP installs are possible for snapshots, i.e. only the ISO images are provided. Kris During the choice for the ftp server selection there are two servers close to the top of the list that are named "snapshot.se.freebsd.org" and "snapshot.jp.freebsd.org" you might want to try those. References 1. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/ 2. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/