Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 18:32:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Richard J Kuhns <rjk@grauel.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5 CD Installation question (Jordan?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960827183025.216C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199608272113.QAA12835@watson.grauel.com>
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On Tue, 27 Aug 1996, Richard J Kuhns wrote: > 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). OK so far... > 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. OK. No problem. > 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. Eh? I have no clue why that URL works, it points to C//cdrom on the local machine (whatever that means). The way you should do this is configure Ethernet device 'lp0' with a fake network on both machines (ie 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2) and then do the ftp transfer. Use a URL like: ftp://10.0.0.1/cdrom/ Realize this does an ANONYMOUS ftp transfer unless you configure otherwise on the options screen. 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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