"Mike Pelley" wrote:

> In order to save bandwidth/time for building multiple machines, I ftp'd the
> binaries for 1.4 Beta to my local unix machine.  Then I ran sysinst to build
> a new machine, and gave it my unix machine name, the path
> (/usr/archive/NetBSD-1.4), and my username and password.  Unfortunately,
> sysinst ran a command similar to 'ftp
> ftp://mike:secret@host.local.com/usr/archive/NetBSD-1.4/ ' which did not
> work because the ftp program used a path relative to my home directory
> instead of /.

This was mentioned on one of the other lists recently.  I
_think_ you need to put an escaped '/' at the start.  Try
"%2Fusr/archive/NetBSD-1.4" instead...

Simon.