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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!lll-winken.llnl.gov!hookup!news.mathworks.com!news.duke.edu!usenet From: Charles Reese <reese@chem.duke.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: (no subject) Date: 23 Apr 1996 20:44:54 GMT Organization: Duke University Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4ljfg6$27q@news.duke.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: async98.async.duke.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit) I have installed FreeBSD from the WC CDROM on one of my PCs. I would now like to install from the CDROM onto a second machine. I have ftp working between the two machines (FreeBSD wftp on #1 and WS_FTP in WFW on #2). I have added the line: ftp:*:99:99::0:0:FTP:/cdrom:/nonexistent to my /etc/passwd file. I can do anonymous ftp to #1 and also can ftp as myself. I have mounted the cdrom as /cdrom. When I install from the boot.flp and choose ftp - other as media I put in ftp://10.0.0.2/ and then fill out the dialog about the #2 host I get an ftp connection (I think) but the install fail with a message "Failed to load the ROOT distribution" "Please correct this and try again" I have tried various combinations of the ftp command eg. ftp://10.0.0.2/ name passwd ftp://10.0.0.2/cdrom name passwd ftp://10.0.0.2/cdrom/dists name passwd etc etc I have also made a link from 2.1.0-RELEASE to /cdrom/dists in my login directory and tried ftp://10.0.0.2/ name passwd As the Installing FreeBSD book says that the install routine automatically adds a 2.1.0-RELEASE to the ftp path Could someone please post an example of how this should be done? Thanks Charlie Reese