Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 20:31:00 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: James Robinson <james@hermes.cybernetics.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: 2.0 Install comments Message-ID: <17194.789798660@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Jan 1995 22:56:55 EST." <199501110356.WAA20086@hermes.cybernetics.net>
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> I've just installed 2.0R onto two machines using whatever floppies the sym > links point to these days. I was amazed -- I couldn't believe the improvement > in interface that has happened. This is really a great leap forward! Thanks! > I was installing across the local network, but WITHOUT DNS / nameserver. > Nowhere did it ask for the IP address of the host machine (i.e. the one with > the distribution on it). I could escape into the subshell and cat it into > /etc/hosts, which worked for a while. After it exploded one of the Huh? You selected ftp installation, right? And then you went down the menu to where it said "I want to select my own" for the ftp site, and you typed in the name or URL of the ftp site using an IP address. Right? > Really really slick and relatively painless. Wonderful work (Poul?) ! Poul and I, yes. Jordan
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