Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 14:11:12 PDT From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: FTP install failures Message-ID: <95Jun1.141117pdt.49859@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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I got the new boot floppies from /pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-ALPHA/UPDATE, and tried installing on the machine on my desk. After going through and not being completely sure how it was going to deal with my existing partitions (I wasn't really sure what I was supposed to do at the disklabel editing screen; was I supposed to tell it to newfs / and /usr?...), I set the FTP options to username "fenner@ftp.freebsd.org", password "fenner@", and chose the FTP install method. After selecting "other" and typing in "ftp://beta.xerox.com:4514/pub/FreeBSD/2.0.5-ALPHA" as the URL, it mounted and newfs'd my old filesystems and then brought up a dialog that says Invalid URL (`') passed to FTP routines! (must start with `ftp://') ---------------------------------(100%)- EXIT I hit enter, and it brought up another dialog: Invalid URL (`^A') passed to FTP routines! (must start with `ftp://') ---------------------------------(100%)- EXIT I hit enter, and it said that the installation completed successfully. I tried again, after going through the media selection again just in case, and got different garbage: Invalid URL (`it from how eA/'wish^A') passed to FTP routines! (must start with `ftp://') ---------------------------------------------------------(100%)- EXIT and then installation completed successfully (note only one Invalid URL dialog box this time, not two.) I also had a hard time finding the "options" menu; I had forgotten that the install menu was not the root menu and was actually a sub-menu of the "welcome" menu. Perhaps the "FTP options" menu should be located closer to the FTP install option? It's also hard to tell what the current value is when going back to the "FTP options" menu; perhaps a set of radio buttons for the first three options (which seem to be mutually exclusive) and checkboxes for the last two? When I go back to the FTP options menu, and pick "set FTP user and password" again, it asks for the username, and prompts me with a default value of the password I had previously selected -- it looks like both the username and the password got set to the password that I entered. (I typed in username "anonymous@ftp.freebsd.org", password "fenner@", but when I came back the default for username was "fenner@".) About the "Installation Options" -- it seems like most of these things should be checkboxes, not menu items. For example, to make sure that the extra debugging flag is on when you don't know the state, it looks like you need to select "No debugging" and then "Toggle debugging" -- a checkbox makes lots more sense. The "language selection" menu should probably come up with the currently-selected language highlighted, not "danish", since if I go there and hit enter by mistake I will suddenly start getting Danish instructions =) I very much liked the fact that the network setup screen remembered my previous answers, unlike the SNAP install. That helps a lot! Bill
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