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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FTP install couldn't get root image Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 19:31:16 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 18 Message-ID: <31B8E5F4.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <4p5dp3$45qk@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: reyes01@ibm.net reyes01@ibm.net wrote: > > I am trying to install from FTP. I am getting the error: > Couldn't get root image from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org.pub/FreeBSD > will try to get it from floppy. > I tried other sites and I got the same error. You have some network lossage at your site which you will first need to fix. > Is there a way to create a floppy with the root image or > is there anything I could do to resolve this problem? That won't help you, you'll just run into it again with the distributions. Talk to your system administrator, I guess! -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project