Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:52:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Mikko Tyolajarvi <mikko@dynas.se> Cc: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD-ROM vs FTP Layout (Was: Intel Endeavor install problems (639K != 640K -> SIG 11)) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960415135155.4632C-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960413091721.12191A-100000@spirit.dynas.se>
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On Sat, 13 Apr 1996, Mikko Tyolajarvi wrote: > > I personally prefer to be able to mount the CD and install via FTP, NFS, > > et al. If anything, rearrange ftp.freebsd.org. The CD MUST work; not > > all of us have access to a CD-equipped Unix box and can build lndir trees > > to move the appropriate files around, like using a MS-DOG box with novell > > ftdp, or OS/2. :( > > > > Ooops... Though I won't try to reinstall my home machine right now, it looks > like everything may be wokring just fine after all, if only one remembers to > change the FTP OnError action to "retry". Sysinstall will then not only > retry to get the files, but retry with different pathnames (including > "dists/%s"). This isn't really mentioned in the on-line help (I didn't see > it anywhere, until I looked in the code), and the default value is "abort". That is wacky, but I will give it a shot next time. Thanks for the hint. > I can at least verify this by running sysinstall locally and getting files > from the local CD-ROM using FTP, and systinstall always aborts with a SIG 11 > after an FTP failure, it seems :-) Odd. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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