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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!rain.fr!IRIS.2001.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!wirehub!news.euro.net!btnet-feed1!btnet!bt!usenet From: paulg@tpc.bt.co.uk (Paul Glennon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FTP Installation Date: 30 Aug 1996 10:01:39 GMT Organization: BT plc. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <506e63$m5v@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk> Reply-To: paulg@tpc.bt.co.uk (Paul Glennon) NNTP-Posting-Host: meadows.ctfec.lon.bt.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.9d - NLS Hi, I am having difficulties installing a new and upgrading an existing system to 2.1.5 via FTP with the install cdrom mounted on the local machine(s). The two ftp servers I have tried are a Sun IPX running 4.1.3 and a PC running OS/2 Warp connect. Both are setup for anonymous FTP access, the cdrom appears as (~ftp)/pub/cdrom on the Sun and as the root drive on the PC. The first problem was the install program was trying to treat the FTP servers as 'Mirrors' by trying to 'cd' to 2.1.5-RELEASE. I tried many combinations (blank, back slash) in the Options page for this setting without getting much further. I noticed that the contents of two files cdrom.cfg and cdrom.inf do not tally, is this the problem? I have installed via FTP from non FreeBSD machines on release 2.1.0 without such problem in the past. Thanks Paul.