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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: huck@nosc.mil,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with ftp install 951005-SNAP
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 14:15:36 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Craig Huckabee <huck@nosc.mil>

Craig Huckabee wrote:
>         It turns out that the ftp was working (it wasn't retrieving anything BUT        it was trying to) but it wasn't putting any debugging

This has been greatly improved in 2.1.  In 2.0.5 and all the recent
snapshots, it was pretty lacking in any reasonable error reporting or
handling.

>         I also had a problem after the install, the fstab file built by the
>         install program didn't mount things in the order I expected,

That will also be fixed in 2.1.
-- 
						Jordan