Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 12:20:30 -0500 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: FTP install Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970404122027.00b32834@etinc.com>
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At 02:07 AM 4/5/97 +0930, Michael Smith wrote: >dennis stands accused of saying: >> >> You're the first one to tell me that it actually does work....What is your >> FTP server? >> Freebsd or some other animal? If freebsd, what version? > >Our build machine was obviously running 2.2, the GP workstation a >2.2-GAMMA-vintage from early this year (maybe Jan or so) and the >notebooks were running an old 2.2 (october or so last year), but were >upgraded as part of the testing. > >It's perhaps worth mentioning that we decided to standardise on FTP, >rather than NFS, for the install as it's somewhat faster and requires >less setup on the source machine, particularly if the source is a >notebook that you've just temporarily thrown onto a customer's >network. We did, however, do several dozen NFS installs before coming >to this decision. I cant get a local FTP load to work (this would be just dandy for us). It doesnt find the directory on a non-anonymous FTP to the server. Whats the trick if your using the "other URL" option? Dennis
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