From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 20 03:02:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA27052 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 03:02:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ingate.uk.neceur.com (ingate.uk.neceur.com [193.116.254.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA27046 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 03:02:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk) Received: from internal-mail.uk.neceur.com by ingate.uk.neceur.com id KAA04762; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:44:56 +0100 (BST) Received: from exchange.nectech.co.uk by internal-mail.uk.neceur.com id KAA23001; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:57:11 +0100 (BST) Received: by exchange.nectech.co.uk with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) id ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:59:54 +0100 Message-ID: <711344C31ACDD1118B94006097827D5B65C713@exchange.nectech.co.uk> From: "Bond, Jeffery" To: "'Doug White'" Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Problems installing 2.2.7-RELEASE (X322fnts.inf) Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:59:53 +0100 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Doug, I've checked my boot floppy image and it seems to exactly match ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.7-RELEASE/floppies/boot.flp. I even had a dig around in the source for sysinstall (dist.c), but couldn't make much sense of it. I gathered that it only needs a .inf files for distributions that come as chunks, like bin.aa bin.ab ... etc. All of the XF86322 files are just plain .tgz files, so they shouldn't need a .inf file. Is this right? Regards, Jeff Jeffery Bond LSI Engineer NEC Technologies (UK) > ---------- > From: Doug White[SMTP:dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 1998 20:06 > To: Bond, Jeffery > Cc: 'questions@freebsd.org' > Subject: Re: Problems installing 2.2.7-RELEASE (X322fnts.inf) > > > On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Bond, Jeffery wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I am having some trouble installing 2.2.7-RELEASE. The machine I am > > installing to does not have a CDROM or internet connection, so I am > > installing via FTP over a LAN from a win95 machine running the WAR FTP > > daemon - fetching the files from a local CDROM drive. > > > > Basically, when it starts to install XF86, the installation stops. I get > a > > message similar to 'FTP shutdown called'. After turning on the DEBUG > option, > > it became clearer: The installation program seems to be trying to fetch > > 'XF86322/X322fnts.inf'. The FTP server replies with 'Permission denied', > > because the file does not exist on the CD (or on ftp.freebsd.org). > > That file doesn't exist. Try re-downloading the boot floppy from > ftp.freebsd.org. If it still shows up I'll try to confirm it here, but it > may be (yet another) sysinstall bug. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message