Subject: Re: FTP Install
To: Randy Beaudreault <maccult@pacbell.net>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/25/2001 11:48:46
At 9:34 AM -0700 7/25/01, Randy Beaudreault wrote:
>I've finally gotten my Q800 NetBSD box up and running to my liking. 
>The next computer I want to install NetBSD on is my G4.  What would 
>I need to set up and the Q800 to allow installation over Ethernet 
>via FTP?  Do I have to do nothing more than get the compressed sets 
>onto the Q800 and have FTP running on it?  Anything more?  Thanks 
>for any info.

Pretty much.

You need local networking working.  You need to enable ftpd in 
/etc/inetd.conf (which is a bad idea these days without proper 
precautions).


Cross my heart, strike me dead, stick a lobster on my head.
John Crichton -- Farscape, 6/15/01
h.b.hotz@jpl.nasa.gov, or hbhotz@oxy.edu