Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:50:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> To: Robert Simmons <rsimmons0@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftp installation Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1106112048390.28136@nber7.nber.org> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=Dtrmw9kZZ1ebJ3N%2BAs9CY013CLQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.64.1106111841190.4137@nber6> <BANLkTi=Dtrmw9kZZ1ebJ3N%2BAs9CY013CLQ@mail.gmail.com>
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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 <feenberg@nber.org> 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--
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