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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FTPing FreeBSD Date: 15 May 1995 22:53:38 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3p8m1i$h55@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3ote27$c86@er6.rutgers.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu Keywords: FTP In article <3ote27$c86@er6.rutgers.edu>, Stephen Brandi <brandi@eden.rutgers.edu> wrote: >I've been trying to install FreeBSD on my computer, on a second drive, >mainly to see how it compares to Linux (which I have installed many times >on different machines). I copied the boot.flp and cpio.flp and reformatted >the drive, and all seems to be OK, but I can't set up a SLIP connection >from the installation program to FTP the OS. The installation program This is FreeBSD 2.0 we're talking about? The slip/ppp support in the installation program for 2.0R was non-existant. For the latest snapshots, it's not quite so bad but still pretty anemic. I'm still waiting for a slip dialing solution that doesn't require kermit (proprietary) or chat (complete opaque to the naive user). I'll try to do something nice for 2.1 here, since I know it's needed. In 2.0.5 I'm not sure what I'll be able to pull off just yet.. Jordan