From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 30 21:23:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EC8837B4CF for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 21:23:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e9V5NAe13498; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:23:10 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:23:10 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au To: James Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation problems with freebsd 4.1.1 - both ftp/local cd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/Mixed; BOUNDARY="----=_NextPart_000_0011_01C04343.B10839B0" Content-ID: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. ------=_NextPart_000_0011_01C04343.B10839B0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, James wrote: > Setting up the bsd installation program, I put 'any', as the > distribution, as it can't seem to find "4.1.1-RELEASE"... > > It connects to my ftp server fine, downloads /bin/bin.inf, and has > been sitting there with the message; DEBUG: parsing attributes file > for distribution bin for the last 20 odd minutes Setup your FTP server such that the CDROM root is under a directory called "4.1.1-RELEASE". The install program will ftp to the w2k machine, login, then try and cd to the distribution directory. > > james > adelaide, south Australia. > -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ ------=_NextPart_000_0011_01C04343.B10839B0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; NAME="dir.txt" Content-ID: Content-Description: Content-Disposition: ATTACHMENT; FILENAME="dir.txt" total 5481 -----r 9706 26-Sep-100 11:32 ABOUT.TXT -----r 981 26-Sep-100 11:32 ERRATA.TXT -----r 29814 26-Sep-100 11:32 HARDWARE.TXT -----r 24571 26-Sep-100 11:32 INSTALL.TXT -----r 4722 26-Sep-100 11:32 LAYOUT.TXT -----r 3618 26-Sep-100 11:32 README.TXT -----r 24543 26-Sep-100 11:32 RELNOTES.TXT -----r 16998 26-Sep-100 11:32 TROUBLE.TXT -----r 8367 26-Sep-100 11:32 UPGRADE.TXT -d---r 0 26-Sep-100 19:22 XF86336 -d---r 0 26-Sep-100 11:31 bin -----r 2048 26-Sep-100 19:24 boot.catalog -d---r 0 26-Sep-100 11:31 catpages -----r 27 26-Sep-100 11:32 cdrom.inf -d---r 0 26-Sep-100 11:31 compat1x -d---r 0 26-Sep-100 11:31 compat20 -d---r 0 26-Sep-100 11:31 compat21 -d---r 0 26-Sep-100 11:31 compat22 -d---r 0 26-Sep-100 11:31 compat3x -d---r 0 26-Sep-100 11:31 crypto -d---r 0 26-Sep-100 11:31 dict -d---r 0 27-Jul-100 16:19 doc -----r 60218 26-Sep-100 19:24 filename.txt -d---r 0 26-Sep-100 11:31 floppies -d---r 0 26-Sep-100 11:31 games -d---r 0 26-Sep-100 11:31 info -----r 5421176 26-Sep-100 11:31 kernel -d---r 0 26-Sep-100 11:31 manpages -d---r 0 25-Sep-100 02:59 packages -d---r 0 26-Sep-100 11:37 ports -d---r 0 26-Sep-100 11:31 proflibs -d---r 0 26-Sep-100 11:31 src ------=_NextPart_000_0011_01C04343.B10839B0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message