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On Wed, 29 May 1996, Scott Muma wrote:

> We are trying to install FreeBSD 2.1.0 via FTP.  Everything appears to be 
> working correctly up until the program tries to download the root 
> distribution files but can't seem to find them.  It then tells us to fix 
> the problem, but since we can't see what the problem is we aren't sure 
> what to do from here.  
> 
> Any clues would be appreciated, thanks
> 
Hello Scott,

Go to the options menu, and change the ftp abort option to "retry".
this should work.