Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:08:58 -0500 From: "Sean Cavanaugh" <Millenia2000@hotmail.com> To: "William Bulley" <web@umich.edu>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: where are base, info, kernels, dict, doc, games, manpages, ports, src, etc. for 7.0-REL? Message-ID: <BAY126-DS1B1A44EB457B16C181A1DCA110@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <20080305214239.GA24231@dell1> References: <20080305214239.GA24231@dell1>
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are you using 7.0-RELEASE-XXXX-bootonly.iso or 7.0-RELEASE-XXXX-Disc1.iso the later has the files on it and can be installed without any network connection at all. -Sean -------------------------------------------------- From: "William Bulley" <web@umich.edu> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 4:42 PM To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: where are base, info, kernels, dict, doc, games, manpages, ports,src, etc. for 7.0-REL? > I can't seem to find the "distributions" listed in > the Subject: line on any of the 7.0-RELEASE ISO images. > > What am I missing? > > I know the 7.0-RELEASE announcement says the "bootable" > ISO can be used along with FTP to finish the install, but > I can't get FTP (or passive FTP, for that matter) to work > as it has in the past. I am behind a m0n0wall firewall, > but I believe I have used passive FTP in the past to get > around that problem. I even opened up the firewall with > a "pass all" rule, but it still didn't work. It looked > like it could not resolve ftp.freebsd.org or ftp9.freebsd.org > since it hung there "trying to connect with..." until it > gave up. I tried several different (known good) DNS server > IP addresses, but nothing worked. > > Then I went looking for the distributions in the ISO > images. Not finding them there either has really had > a negative impact on my install today, sigh... :-( > > Regards, > > web... > > -- > William Bulley Email: web@umich.edu > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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