docs/73479: Handbook gives incomplete suggestion on install from local FTP
Paul Hoffman
phoffman at proper.com
Wed Nov 3 16:10:35 UTC 2004
>Number: 73479
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Handbook gives incomplete suggestion on install from local FTP
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Nov 03 16:10:33 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Paul Hoffman
>Release: 4.10
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
In the handbook, "2.13.2 Creating a Local FTP Site with a FreeBSD Disk" says "Anyone with network connectivity to your machine can now chose a media type of FTP and type in ftp://your machine after picking ``Other'' in the FTP sites menu during the install." What it doesn't say is that you *also* need to go into the Options menu and change distribution name to "any". That is true for at least 4.9 and 4.10 CDs.
>How-To-Repeat:
Try installing following the directions, and you'll fail because it can't find the distribution.
>Fix:
Add a sentence to the section that tells the user to also change the option before executing.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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