From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 20 19:50:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from garlic.acadiau.ca (garlic.acadiau.ca [131.162.138.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A26837B4CF for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 19:50:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thinkpada20 (039646u-nb.acadiau.ca [131.162.149.156]) by garlic.acadiau.ca (8.10.0/8.10.0) with SMTP id e9L2sfR37820 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 23:54:41 -0300 (ADT) Message-ID: <002501c03b09$af9fbe00$9c95a283@acadiau.ca> Reply-To: "Brandon W. Uhlman" <039646u@acadiau.ca> From: "Brandon W. Uhlman" <039646u@acadiau.ca> To: Subject: FTP Install Fails with Signal 11 Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 23:50:34 -0300 Organization: Acadia University MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0022_01C03AF0.8A0F6280" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0022_01C03AF0.8A0F6280 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable G'day: I've tried doing FTP installs of FreeBSD 4.1 and 4.1.1 from both a local = mirror, and one of the freebsd.org sites as well (ftp3, IIRC). The = machine is an IBM Thinkpad A20m (2628-14U) - Celeron 500, 6.0GB, 64MB = (upgraded to 128MB). I've read some stories about IBM A and T series = laptops on this list, but it doesn't seem related... other than FreeBSD = combined with this machine seems to generally be cursed. :-) I lease the laptop from the University I attend, so any hardware = problems would have to go through them... and I don't relish asking them = for new RAM because an operating system they don't officially support = won't install on this machine. I know some people have installed FreeBSD successfully on an identically = configured A20m. Thoughts or suggestions? Thanks, Brandon Uhlman BCS (Hons.), Acadia University ('03) ------=_NextPart_000_0022_01C03AF0.8A0F6280 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
G'day:
 
I've tried doing FTP installs of = FreeBSD 4.1 and=20 4.1.1 from both a local mirror, and one of the freebsd.org sites as well = (ftp3,=20 IIRC). The machine is an IBM Thinkpad A20m (2628-14U) - Celeron 500, = 6.0GB, 64MB=20 (upgraded to 128MB). I've read some stories about IBM A and T series = laptops on=20 this list, but it doesn't seem related... other than FreeBSD combined = with this=20 machine seems to generally be cursed. :-)
 
I lease the laptop from the University = I attend, so=20 any hardware problems would have to go through them... and I don't = relish asking=20 them for new RAM because an operating system they don't officially = support won't=20 install on this machine.
 
I know some people have installed = FreeBSD=20 successfully on an identically configured A20m. Thoughts or=20 suggestions?
 
Thanks,
 
Brandon Uhlman
BCS (Hons.), Acadia University=20 ('03)
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