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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.uoregon.edu!news.islandnet.com!islandnet.com!mark From: mark@islandnet.com (Mark Morley) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FTP Installation Doesn't Work? Date: 7 Oct 1996 15:34:23 GMT Organization: Island Net in Victoria, B.C. Canada Lines: 16 Message-ID: <53b7tv$n1s@sanjuan.islandnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: islandnet.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] We are trying to set up a new Pentium 166 over the net using the FTP option. It's got 32 megs, an Adaptec 1542 SCSI controller, and we've tried various 2 and 4 gig drives. It appears to do the complete installation via FTP, but none of the post-installation options do anything. If we reboot the system it complains about there being no "/kernel". If I type in "kernel.GENERIC" it begins booting, but then locks up just before the fdc0 check. So we're wondering if there are any known problems with installing via FTP? Should we try it from floppy instead, or does it sound like there are other problems here? Thanks, Mark