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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.walltech.com!news.his.com!news.akorn.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!sun4nl!phcoms4.seri.philips.nl!news From: Hans Lambermont <Hansl.Lambermont@mpn.cp.philips.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FTP install problem Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 13:41:43 +0100 Organization: Philips C&P Network Services Lines: 34 Message-ID: <31593787.167EB0E7@mpn.cp.philips.com> References: <4ja0er$qd4@minerva.worldbank.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc4.mpn.cp.philips.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) > I'm having a problem with a 2.1.0 install. After I boot the boot.flp > diskette and configure for an FTP install, I get to: > Attempt to chdir to distribution in puboptions: > Couldn't get root image from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD > > get floppies/root.flp > < floppies/root.flp: No such file or directory > The floppies directory exists and has the file root.flp, but the ftp > get command fails. Anybody knows how to fix this? I tried to download My problem is similar: i do: ftp through ftp-proxy as follows: options: ftp@ftp.freebsd.org guest@ media: ftp://ip-nr-of-ftp-proxy/pub/FreeBSD and the connection works, but packages/INDEX isn't ftp-ed right. (manual ftp works though). anybody any idea's? Hans -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ir. Hans Lambermont http://xxx.mpn.cp.philips.com/Hans.Lambermont Network Services Hans.Lambermont@mpn.cp.philips.com Origin / Philips C&P, HCZ-238 phone/fax: (+31 40 27) 56360/55934 PO Box 218, 5600MD Eindhoven, Netherlands GSM: (+31) 6 53252172 -------------------------------------------------------------------------