From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 18 17:58:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from acetylene.vapornet.net (acetylene.vapornet.net [209.100.218.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9758119E6 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:58:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danm@DanMahoney.com) Received: from localhost (danm@localhost) by acetylene.vapornet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1/VaporServer 1.4) with ESMTP id TAA25091; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 19:58:33 -0600 (CST) (envelope from: danm@DanMahoney.com) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 20:58:33 -0500 (EST) From: "Dan Mahoney Jr." X-Sender: danm@acetylene.vapornet.net To: Steve Neuharth Cc: freeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Broken /stand/sysinstall? In-Reply-To: <36CB7124.8E0C5F10@visi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Steve Neuharth wrote: > 2.2.7 is no longer available for download. You have to install 2.2.8 or > 3.0. You could try using the 2.2.8 dirs... not sure of the implications. > BTW the trailing directory tree name (like 2.2.8-stable) is > configurable in somewhere in sysinstall... I forget where but I > remember white text on black as opposed to blue/red. You set that in install options. And the 2.2.7 dirs are at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-2.2.7/ The problem is, whatever distribution you put in...It tries to go there and CD packages. There is no "packages" directory by that exact name. Which is why I either need source or an ftp proxy (a symlink might be nice as well). (Of course, assuming I'm really in a demented mood, I could always download INDEX from that directory and point it at localhost)...But there has to be a better way. -- "Blargy Frap!" -mtreal, efnet #macintosh channel, 8.10.98, Approx 3AM Dan Mahoney Gushi on efnet IRC ICQ:13735144 (webpages TBA) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message