[Gllug] ftp installs

[Robert McKay]

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Dan Kolb wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 12:38:06PM +0100, Daniel Andersson wrote:
> > > Anyone know what distros allow ftp net install? My usual SUSE 8.0 doesn't?
> > 
> > IF there's a program out there that can mount ftp's to a local directory
> > (can't be too hard to do?), then you can install slackware via ftp, sort of
> > at least ;o)
> 
> I remember hearing something about a filesystem called ftpfs, which mounts an
> FTP server as part of the local filesystem. I don't know if it's still around,
> though.
> 
> Dan

There's PerlFS and a demo HTTPfs filesystem perl module for it floating
around that allowed you to mount URLs (I can't remember if it did FTP or
not)..

Unfortunately PerlFS is no-longer distributed; the author took it down. I
have an old copy of PerlFS up at
http://fungus.sh.nu/~robert/PerlFS-0.08-pre2.tar.gz, but I no-longer seem
to have a copy of the HTTP-FS perl module.

Neither perlfs or the httpfs perl module are really finished. Don't even
think of using them other than for amusement purposes. Still a cool hack
though.

Regards,

Robert McKay.


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