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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FTPing FreeBSD
Date: 15 May 1995 22:53:38 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Message-ID: <3p8m1i$h55@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <3ote27$c86@er6.rutgers.edu>
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Keywords: FTP

In article <3ote27$c86@er6.rutgers.edu>,
Stephen Brandi <brandi@eden.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>I've been trying to install FreeBSD on my computer, on a second drive,
>mainly to see how it compares to Linux (which I have installed many times
>on different machines). I copied the boot.flp and cpio.flp and reformatted
>the drive, and all seems to be OK, but I can't set up a SLIP connection
>from the installation program to FTP the OS. The installation program

This is FreeBSD 2.0 we're talking about?  The slip/ppp support in the
installation program for 2.0R was non-existant.  For the latest snapshots,
it's not quite so bad but still pretty anemic.  I'm still waiting for
a slip dialing solution that doesn't require kermit (proprietary) or
chat (complete opaque to the naive user).  I'll try to do something nice
for 2.1 here, since I know it's needed.  In 2.0.5 I'm not sure what I'll
be able to pull off just yet.. 

						Jordan