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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!news.cyberstore.ca!van-bc!news.mindlink.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing FBSD 2.1: FTP & CDROM at the same time Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 23:26:58 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 19 Message-ID: <30FA01C2.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> References: <andrewgDL5vHI.3sr@netcom.com> <andrewgDL5wzJ.6Cp@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b5 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: Andrew Ghali <andrewg@netcom.com> Andrew Ghali wrote: > The load seems to start properly and /mnt/dev, /mnt/etc, /mnt/proc, > /mnt/stand, /mnt/usr, and /mnt/var are all created. But then it all stops > when it says "Failed to retrieve piece file bin/bin.aa!" I tried the URL > ftp://first.machine/../../cdrom/dists/ but that didn't get as far before > failing. > > What am I doing wrong here? Nothing. I managed to screw up the ftp-from-CDROM code somehow. :-( If you use NFS (export /cdrom from the other system) then all will work well. I've been using this technique to install multiple FreeBSD systems from a single CD for awhile. Really embarassing about the FTP install though. Sigh! Needless to say, I'll fix this in the next release. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project