From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 23 18:36:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA26409 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 18:36:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA26404 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 18:36:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA12746; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 18:36:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 18:36:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: John Scharles cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing 2.1.5 from my ftp site In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961023210245.00936ec4@isle.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, John Scharles wrote: > I have 2.1.5R running on a network and would like to use its CD ROM drive to > allow other machines on the network to install from it. When I tried to ftp > from the install floppy it tells me that it can't find the files. > > How should I set up the file structure on my FreeBSD machine....I tried > linking the /cdrom/dists directory into the ftp directory as 2.1.5-RELEASE > but this didn't make it! Is there anything special I need to do to allow > anonymous ftp to the cd drive? 1. Mount the cd under ~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.5-RELEASE 2. Tell your installers to set the FTP Error flag in Options to 'retry'. This is an "undocumented feature" in sysinstall. And I don't mean a bug, I mean an undocumented feature. :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major