From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 12 00:50:52 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5E92106566B for ; Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:50:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feenberg@nber.org) Received: from mail2.nber.org (mail2.nber.org [66.251.72.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74F238FC13 for ; Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:50:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nber7.nber.org (nber7.nber.org [66.251.72.41]) by mail2.nber.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p5C0onNL090584 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:50:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from feenberg@nber.org) Received: from localhost (feenberg@localhost) by nber7.nber.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) with ESMTP id p5C0onA7028206; Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:50:49 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: nber7.nber.org: feenberg owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:50:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Feenberg To: Robert Simmons In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-79550136-300895293-1307839849=:28136" X-Anti-Virus: Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Linux Mail Server 5.6.39/RELEASE, bases: 20110611 #5490967, check: 20110612 clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftp installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:50:52 -0000 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---79550136-300895293-1307839849=:28136 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Sat, 11 Jun 2011, Robert Simmons wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: >> >> I have tried many of the ftp sites enumerated in sysinstall, with both >> 7.4-RELEASE and 8.2-RELEASE, and in all cases the installation proceeds >> for a few seconds and then hangs, with the last message on the console >> always being: >> >>  DEBUG: Generating /etc/fstab file. >> ... >> >> Is there something off about the sysinstall ftp dialog? I don't see a way to >> monitor what is happening. > > Your firewall may be interfering with the connection. You may want to > read the handbook section on FTP installs (the grey box at the bottom > of the page): > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-media.html > Well, our router has never interfered with ftp transfers done from the command line, but switching to the firewall-friendly mode in sysinstall does fix the problem. Thank you Daniel Feenberg NBER ---79550136-300895293-1307839849=:28136--