Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 08:07:29 -0700 (PDT) From: jim flournoy <bsdspaceman@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I can't get my net install to work Message-ID: <20010814150730.8831.qmail@web20201.mail.yahoo.com>
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Thanks for the pointers - this e-mail should be text based now. Hollar at me if I'm wrong! more below.. >From: Kris Kennaway >To: Jim Flournoy >CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: I can't get my net install to work >Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 22:44:05 -0700 > >On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 05:34:54AM +0000, Jim Flournoy wrote: > > > Hello all. I'm trying to install onto on old ibm pc server. its a > > p75 with a 3com509 nic and 2 4g scsi hd's. it has no cdrom. i'm > > trying to do a ftp installation as described on the cd but it always > > fails as soon as i change the 'release name' on the options menu to - > > any. > >Why are you doing that? '-' isn't a release name, neither is 'any'. >If I'm misunderstanding you and you actually typed something >different, please tell us exactly what it was. I typed "any" without the quotes because I thought I was prompted to, but no, I'm not mixing distributions. I tried again without changing this. I'm doing an ftp install for a machine without a cdrom. I did edit the passwd file of the data server as instructed. Still I can't seem to get the path right. I have tried ftp://192.168.0.10 ftp://192.168.0.10/cdrom ftp://192.168.0.10/pub/FreeBSD in all these cases it can't seem to find the install image. Is there a better path I should be using? maybe ftp://192.168.0.10/cdrom/DestinationDir? also, on a related note - can this be done using a laptop as the data server? Thank you, Jim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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