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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How do I do a FTP install ? Date: 11 Mar 1997 19:16:58 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 30 Message-ID: <5g4b3a$1gv@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <01bbeaa0$4610e580$664c1bcc@tony.gcr1.com> <5fd0ht$jd@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5fes8j$92j$3@news.fred.net> <5fhji9$r24@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E In-Reply-To: <5fhji9$r24@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> To: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk, jkh@time.cdrom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36941 brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) wrote: > [Posted and mailed (to Jordan)] [too] > Or call it "none" in the options menu and specify the full path > to the top level directory (the one with the bin subdirectory). > Same applies for NFS. > > It may be worth making install try to remove this last directory > component if it fails to mount/cd (Jordan?) :) The CD-ROM code does this already. It looks first in the root of the CD, then in the subdirectory named like the distribution name. I've already relied on this feature when i made my snapshot for the latest GUUG Spring Meeting CD (GUUG == German Unix Users Group), where we are not alone on the CD. The only flaw by now: the cdrom.inf file is only looked up in the root of the CD, and you'll get a nasty warning if it's not found there (although you can continue). I've solved this by a symlink. Maybe the Rock Ridge impaired DOS lusers don't even see that symlink... :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)