From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 18 10:28:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA27740 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 10:28:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from serv.unibest.ru (serv.unibest.ru [194.87.33.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA27695 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 10:28:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from osa@unibest.ru) Received: (qmail 18918 invoked from network); 18 Mar 1998 18:28:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hole.etrust.ru) (200.1.6.2) by serv.unibest.ru with SMTP; 18 Mar 1998 18:28:19 -0000 Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 21:30:20 +0300 (MSK) From: Ozz!!! X-Sender: osa@hole.etrust.ru To: Keith Woodworth cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: FTP install... In-Reply-To: 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, 18 Mar 1998, Keith Woodworth wrote: > > Doug will probably answwer this.... > > Finally got around to installing a 4.3 gb drive the other day. Installed > win95, (have to for some issues). I made partitions in fdisk as follows: > c: as 1 gig > d: as 1 gig > the rest I left so have bout 2.1 gb left for fbsd. > > Installed 95 on c got it working. I booted a 2.1.7 install disk and used > the last 2.1 gb for bsd, auto partitioned and want to do a local ftp > install from a 486 that Ive been using for over a year as a dedicated bsd > machine. I mounted the install cd under: > /var/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.7-RELEASE > then supplied the pertenent info for setting up IP, gateway, netmask etc. > in the new install. It then asks where you want to ftp install from, I > choose select my own site URL it brings me to the screen: > > ftp://192.168.0.2/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.7-RELEASE > > 192.168.0.2 being the ip of the 486. But it gives me the error of not > being able to find the dir specifed. I also used the machine name but the > 486 just dials out to resolve the host name, which of course doenst > exist so it error out there too. > > I have setup in options the anonymous user instead of ftp user with an > email password. > > In windows I can ftp and telnet to the 486, and I'm using the 486 as a > gateway so I know the machines are talking to each other as I can use > netscrape to get out via the 486. > > Any other issues I can look at here? can I use an IP addr at the ftp:// > dialog box? Have I go the CD mounted corectly? Though one thing that did > get done was the bootmgr got installed even though bsd isnt. > > thanks for any info as now with all this hdisk realestate I can try > things like cvsup and other little goodies. > > Keith > kwoody@citytel.net > Try install from DOS partition... Copy bin to your mustdie95 partition & install. Rgdz, oZZ, osa@unibest.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message