"P.T. Breuer" <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote in message
news:shtanb.bcq.ln@news.it.uc3m.es...

> What's to understand? All the distros that I can think of offhand have
> an ftp install and always have (well, slackware didn't use to - nfs
> instead - but I don't know about nowadays).. indeed, SuSE offers no
> other kind of install.

And if I were a Linux fanatic and knew all about the various distributions
(as you apparently do), then I suppose I would have known that. But I'm
not, and no other information was offered. It would have been *nice* to get
a suggestion of where to look. If the previous poster had said what you
just did, I would have looked for SuSE's install.

>
> > Anyway, my second attempt at FreeBSD installed flawlessly, so it looks
like
> > I've just switched from Linux to become a FreeBSD user.
>
> Fine. But if you can't see the ftp install option under "medium" in the
> installs, you have a problem.

Maybe all the installs *you've* ever seen offers an FTP option, but the
distribution CD *I* have for RH6.1 provides no such animal.

> Indeed a person who HAS TO DO an install,
> instead of simply blatting the stuff to disk, putting on a kernel,
> pointing the mbr to it and lighting the blue touch paper, has a problem.
>
> Peter

Did I give the impression I knew what I was doing? If I did, I wouldn't be
here looking for help, and a set of instructions like that wouldn't help
either.

- Dennis