From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 13 23:54:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web20206.mail.yahoo.com (web20206.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4BCDB37B40C for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 23:54:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdspaceman@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20010814065424.66906.qmail@web20206.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [63.70.144.16] by web20206.mail.yahoo.com; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 23:54:24 PDT Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 23:54:24 -0700 (PDT) From: jim flournoy Subject: Re: I can't get my net install to work To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think I've got this email account set up as text-based now.. Hollar at me if I'm wrong! >From: Kris Kennaway >To: Jim Flournoy >CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: I can't get my net install to work >Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 22:44:05 -0700 > >On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 05:34:54AM +0000, Jim Flournoy wrote: > > > Hello all. I'm trying to install onto on old ibm pc server. its a > > p75 with a 3com509 nic and 2 4g scsi hd's. it has no cdrom. i'm > > trying to do a ftp installation as described on the cd but it always > > fails as soon as i change the 'release name' on the options menu to - > > any. > >Why are you doing that? '-' isn't a release name, neither is 'any'. >If I'm misunderstanding you and you actually typed something >different, please tell us exactly what it was. I thought it said to do that in the install notes. I just typed "any" - without the quotes. I actually tried it with & without them, and it still seems to fail. And it doesn't seem to find the installation image. I'm doing an ftp install to my other freebsd box with a cdrom using the same disto. (I set it up for just this purpose with 4.3) I successfully changed the passwd file as described (aka add ftp:*:99:99::0:0:FTP:/cdrom:/sbin/nologin) I tried giving it the path ftp://192.168.0.10 and ftp://192.168.0.10/cdrom - I just saw in the install notes that it said to use ftp://192.168.0.10/pub/FreeBSD, I'm not sure if this applies to a cdrom install? But I'll try, and no doubt feel stupid if it works. If this isn't the recommended ftp path hollar at me some more.. BTW - on another similar note, can this be done using a laptop as the data server? Thanks again - Jim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message