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Date:      Sun, 3 Mar 2002 18:08:51 -0500 (EST)
From:      Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com>
To:        FreeBDS-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   FTP install broken in 4.5R?
Message-ID:  <20020303175948.O18372-100000@mail.radzinschi.com>

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Hello:

	I needed to set up a firewall, and since the intended machine did
not have a CD-ROM drive, I figured I would do an install of 4.5-R over
FTP. Unfortunately, I could not get the 4.5 install to work via FTP.

I tried to get this to work on two different machines, with both
3Com 3C905 network cards and cheap D-Link 530TX cards.  The install gets
an IP address from the DHCP server, but for some reason it does not
connect to any FTP site I try.

I eventually gave up, downloaded the OpenBSD 3.0 boot floppy, and 10
minutes later I had a full OpenBSD install on the machine. It is now
happily serving as a firewall, NAT Gateway, and DNS cache server.

Perhaps I should have tried a little harder to get the FreeBSD install to
work, but it seems to me that something broke between 4.4 and 4.5.

Has anyone else had a similar problem, or actually managed to get 4.5
installed via FTP?

Marco Radzinschi

E-Mail: marco@radzinschi.com
AOL IM: CrackedBoy


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