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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uchinews!ncar!gatech!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!dziuxsolim.rutgers.edu!er6.rutgers.edu!not-for-mail From: brandi@eden.rutgers.edu (Stephen Brandi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FTPing FreeBSD Date: 16 May 1995 15:32:51 -0400 Organization: Rutgers University Lines: 33 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3paul3$a4c@er6.rutgers.edu> References: <3ote27$c86@er6.rutgers.edu> <3p8m1i$h55@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: er6.rutgers.edu Keywords: FTP jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >In article <3ote27$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. Well, that would certainly explain it. I did try using 2.0R. I wound up pulling the bindist files down to my DOS drive and installing from there. >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 I don't have time to try one of the later snapshots right now, but FTP installation through SLIP certainly would be neat. I look forward to trying it when 2.1 comes out. -- ########################################################## # Stephen Brandi brandi@eden.rutgers.edu I'm a default # ##########################################################