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From: Hans Lambermont <Hansl.Lambermont@mpn.cp.philips.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FTP install problem
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 13:41:43 +0100
Organization: Philips C&P Network Services
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> I'm having a problem with a 2.1.0 install. After I boot the boot.flp
> diskette and configure for an FTP install, I get to:
>    Attempt to chdir to distribution in puboptions:
>   Couldn't get root image from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD
> > get floppies/root.flp
> < floppies/root.flp: No such file or directory
> The floppies directory exists and has the file root.flp, but the ftp
> get command fails. Anybody knows how to fix this? I tried to download 

My problem is similar:
i do:
ftp through ftp-proxy as follows:

options:
ftp@ftp.freebsd.org
guest@

media:
ftp://ip-nr-of-ftp-proxy/pub/FreeBSD

and the connection works, but 
packages/INDEX isn't ftp-ed right. (manual ftp works though).

anybody any idea's?

  Hans

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