From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 3 6: 4: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsys01.intnet.net (unknown [198.252.32.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9595B37B401 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 2001 06:03:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from [206.112.107.105] (HELO devilrabbit.wwc.com) by mailsys01.intnet.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.3.2) with ESMTP id 3287694; Sat, 03 Feb 2001 09:03:18 -0500 Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010203050051.009daeb0@mail.wwc.com> X-Sender: george224@mail.wwc.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 06:04:29 -0800 To: ftp-bugs@ftp.freesoftware.com From: George Elliott Subject: FTP bug Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi All,

So maybe I'm missing something here.

I was downloading 4.2 bin files from ftp.freebsd.org , when I came upon bin.ab, which turned out to be not the file that the installation program wanted, but a directory in which none of the links worked.
(FTP directory /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.2-RELEASE/bin/bin.ab)

So I gave up, and seeing that bin.ab was actually a file in version 4.1.1, I tried installing that version instead, until I came upon another directory masquerading as a file, bin.bi.  This directory had one working link, which was pub, but it just led to an identical directory. 

FTP directory /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.1.1-RELEASE/bin/bin.bi/pub/ at ftp.freebsd.org

(Which also appears to be identical to the bin.ab directory in 4.2, by the way, and all 3 of which look like the root directory.)

OK, I just tried a German mirror, and this isn't a problem there, so it's probably a glitch in your new system (and so I'm not crazy.)

While I'm at it, if anyone cares, the version info.    in          ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/README.TXT  is out of date.

Take care ya all,
George
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