Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 11:25:43 -0700 From: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com> To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 2.1.5-RELEASE sysinstall via ftp over ppp fails Message-ID: <199608301825.LAA02383@cholla.flyingfox.com>
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(Apologies if this is old hat. I poked around the archives, and saw nothing similar.) I ran into what looks like a sysinstall bug last night, while trying to install 2.1.5 on a home machine via PPP from an archive I keep at the office. The PPP link came up fine, but the ftp connection was not established, and it appears that it was trying to establish an ftp connection to ".52.18" -- no wonder it didn't work! That string appears nowhere in the URL I specified; rather, it is the tail of the default gateway address I filled in in sysinstall's menu. Doing a 2.1.0 install in the same manner, on the same hardware, worked fine. (Yes, I used a 2.1.0 boot floppy for the 2.1.0 install, and a 2.1.5 floppy for the 2.1.5 install.) And loading 2.1.5 from ftp.freebsd.org (selected from the sysinstall menu), instead of filling in my own URL, worked fine; so I've worked around this problem. I'll take a look at the sysinstall sources when I get a chance. On the other hand, since this is now low priority for me, the words of Ogden Nash come to mind: A child need not be very clever To know that "Later, dear" means "Never." Jim Shankland Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc.
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