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From: Jonathon Doran <doranj@Colorado.EDU>
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Subject: Re: FTP from CD-ROM
To: bambang@labkom.itenas.ac.id (Sukotjo Bambang)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 00:00:17 -0600 (MDT)
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> I already try that way and it didn't works.

Please be more specific when describing your problem.  What did you do,
and how did it fail (error messages etc)

Once the CD is mounted, ftpd shouldn't be able to distinguish it from any
other read-only filesystem.

I suggest that you create an FTP user, and make a symbolic link to the CD:

cd ~ftp
ln -s /cdrom 3.2-RELEASE

(substituting the appropriate ftp user, cd-rom mount point, and release)

I haven't tried this, and it would be inconvienient for me to do so right now,
but I expect it would work.  I would be interested in discussing any
difficulties you ran into trying this.  My best guess is that it would work
fine.


> There are any different FreeBSD source between FTP and CD-ROM?

Most people ftp from writable filesystems, but this shouldn't be causing
you troubles.  I suspect the problem is pathnames:  The installation expects
the files to be in a directory named after the release you are installing.
For example "3.2-RELEASE".

$ ls 3.2-RELEASE
XF86333         compat20        dict            info            tools
bin             compat21        doc             manpages
catpages        compat22        floppies        proflibs
compat1x        des             games           src

The CDs don't have this organization, the root directory contains the contents
of 3.2-RELEASE.

Jon Doran


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