Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:59:53 +0100 From: "Bond, Jeffery" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk> To: "'Doug White'" <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Problems installing 2.2.7-RELEASE (X322fnts.inf) Message-ID: <711344C31ACDD1118B94006097827D5B65C713@exchange.nectech.co.uk>
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Hi Doug, I've checked my boot floppy image and it seems to exactly match ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.7-RELEASE/floppies/boot.flp. I even had a dig around in the source for sysinstall (dist.c), but couldn't make much sense of it. I gathered that it only needs a .inf files for distributions that come as chunks, like bin.aa bin.ab ... etc. All of the XF86322 files are just plain .tgz files, so they shouldn't need a .inf file. Is this right? Regards, Jeff Jeffery Bond LSI Engineer NEC Technologies (UK) <mailto:jeffery.bond@nectech.co.uk> > ---------- > From: Doug White[SMTP:dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 1998 20:06 > To: Bond, Jeffery > Cc: 'questions@freebsd.org' > Subject: Re: Problems installing 2.2.7-RELEASE (X322fnts.inf) > > > On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Bond, Jeffery wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I am having some trouble installing 2.2.7-RELEASE. The machine I am > > installing to does not have a CDROM or internet connection, so I am > > installing via FTP over a LAN from a win95 machine running the WAR FTP > > daemon - fetching the files from a local CDROM drive. > > > > Basically, when it starts to install XF86, the installation stops. I get > a > > message similar to 'FTP shutdown called'. After turning on the DEBUG > option, > > it became clearer: The installation program seems to be trying to fetch > > 'XF86322/X322fnts.inf'. The FTP server replies with 'Permission denied', > > because the file does not exist on the CD (or on ftp.freebsd.org). > > That file doesn't exist. Try re-downloading the boot floppy from > ftp.freebsd.org. If it still shows up I'll try to confirm it here, but it > may be (yet another) sysinstall bug. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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