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Date:      Fri, 12 May 2006 11:45:13 -0500
From:      Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz>
To:        Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.berkeley.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ftp install / base not found
Message-ID:  <4464BB99.3020203@daleco.biz>
In-Reply-To: <20060512160733.GB75201@malcolm.berkeley.edu>
References:  <20060511153720.GB42786@malcolm.berkeley.edu>	<Pine.SOL.4.53.0605111436090.20727@bender>	<c11d0ffd0605111340q7ad979c3ya4bb4291799c8aaf@mail.gmail.com>	<Pine.SOL.4.53.0605111704150.20727@bender>	<20060511215634.GA55038@malcolm.berkeley.edu> <20060512160733.GB75201@malcolm.berkeley.edu>

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Mike Hunter wrote:
> 
> I was able to install 5.3-RELEASE using this as the specified URL:
> 
> ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/5.3-RELEASE
> 

Good to know that!  This one goes in the "save" folder!


> What bothers me is this verbiage from sysinstall:
> 
> "Only the Primary sites are guaranteed to carry the full range of possible
> distributions."
> 
> I'm ok with having to use an archive ftp server for the crufty
> distribution I'm trying to install, but don't lie to me and say I don't
> have to!  *sniff*

Heh, now we have to define "possible"? ;-)

KDK


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