Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 16:13:52 -0500 (EST) From: Richard J Kuhns <rjk@grauel.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 2.1.5 CD Installation question (Jordan?) Message-ID: <199608272113.QAA12835@watson.grauel.com>
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After the removeable drive in one of our TI laptops decided to leave while the system was running (and wiped out quite a bit of the system on it's way out), I decided to reload from the 2.1.5 CD I just received. The laptop was previously running 2.1.5; it had gotten there via the -stable path (I rebuilt the world every 2 or 3 weeks while -stable work was going on). The easiest way to reload it (I thought) would be to mount the CD in another FreeBSD machine, and install over a laplink cable. I've done it a number of times in the past with 2.1 without much trouble. However.... what combination of Release Name and URL do I need to use to do the install this way? The CD is mounted on machine C as "/cdrom"; with the 2.1 sysinstall I could set (in the Options Menu) Release Name to blank, ftp user as myself, specify an URL of ftp://C//cdrom, and let it rip. The 2.1.5 sysinstall informs me that it can't CD to `', and can't find any of the distributions I'd requested. Next I tried setting the Release Name to `cdrom' and the URL to `ftp://C/../../..', which should have put me in the root directory. This time, it claims it can't CD to `cdrom'. I can't load 2.1.5 with the 2.1 sysinstall, since root.flp doesn't exist anymore. Any suggestions? Thanks.... -- Rich Kuhns rjk@grauel.com PO Box 6249 Tel: (317)477-6000 \ 100 Sawmill Road x319 Lafayette, IN 47903 (800)489-4891 /
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