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From: babbleon@mercury.interpath.net (Brian T. Schellenberger - Personal Account)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Yet another FTP-install question
Date: 7 Mar 1997 01:54:48 GMT
Organization: Interpath
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FreeBSD 2.1 doesn't recognize the CD-ROM but 2.2 does, so I'm trying
to do an FTP install, but it immediately says that host ftp.freebsd.org
is not recognized.
I seem to be setting the right stuff, but then my other end for ppp
is slirp. I've never had ppp work right under the best of circumstances;
I normally use CSLIP, but the installation process won't work with cslip.
- Have other people successfully used FTP installation for a virgin
installation, as opposed to an upgrade?
- Has anybody used "slirp ppp" doing this?
Also, the novice default of ending the install when the FTP fails is
-really- dumb. It's quite predictable that FTPs will fail; it would
be much better if it went back to the choose media screen so I don't
need to re-specify the packages and so forth.
Thanks.
--
"Time Travel. Since my first day on the job as a Star Fleet captain I
swore I'd never let myself get caught up in one of these God-forsaken
paradoxes. The future is the past. The past is the future. It all
gives me a headache." -- Capt. Janeway