From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 23 19:12:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.plug.cx (kypo.alfred.cx [150.101.93.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 615B837B405 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 19:12:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.plug.cx (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 00B4A2B8BF; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:12:50 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:12:49 +0930 From: Andrew Reid To: Frank Walder Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD download Message-ID: <20011024121249.E41477@plug.cx> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jlsmbg@home.com on Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:41:24PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:41:24PM -0400, Frank Walder wrote: > I am currently running a network of seven computers at home, four Win2000, > one NetWare5, and one blank. I want to dedicate the blank machine to > running your BSD. I went to your FreeBSD.org website on my Win2000 Server > to download the operating system, but have had some problems. First, the > IE5.5 locks up when I click on the ftp hyperlink. second, my CuteFTP client > errors out with "425 Can't build data connection: Operation timed out." when > I log on anonymously. That sounds like you're having a problem with firewalling. Are you behind a firewall? Perhaps you should try passive FTP. > I want to remove Bill Gates from my life, but your site is not making that > easy. It might be free, but it is not easy either. I can be contacted by > email at jlsmbg@hotmail.com or by telephone at 610-583-0556. That's good. FreeBSD isn't that hard to get into -- it seems that you're having a few difficulties with FTP, nothing more. Failing the suggestion above, you might be able to try looking for a local UNIX user group -- they're bound to have CDs that you can copy. - andrew -- void signature () { cout << "Andrew Reid -- andrew.reid@plug.cx" << endl; cout << "Cell: +61 401 946 813" << endl; cout << "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur" << endl; } To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message