Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 18:36:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: John Scharles <johns@cruz.isle.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing 2.1.5 from my ftp site Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961023183524.12721C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961023210245.00936ec4@isle.net>
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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
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