Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 19:41:48 -0700 From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: dcastle <chris@enteract.com> Cc: hsup@pranja.cdrom.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing freebsd troubles Message-ID: <199605240241.TAA15775@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 May 1996 13:06:39 CDT." <199605231806.NAA05411@enteract.com>
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-------- > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.1 on a compaq 486 box. It doesn't have a > CDROM drive, so I'm installing via FTP. IE I ftp to another machine here in > the office, and the CD is sitting in THAT machine. The FTP server on that > machine points to its CD drive as the home directory for anon ftps. > I know this normally works fine because I've used this method to install > on several machines in the past. > > Anyway, when I actually go to do the commit, it sets up the fs, ftps in, > starts a transfer, and then a few seconds later I get this message: > > Failed to retrieve piece file bin.aa! Aborting transfer. Try setting the FTP failure mode to 'retry'. > > Then it asks me if I want to try again. No matter how I respond, the install > program crashes at this point. The sig handler says it got sig 11. Yeah, I saw it. No clue. Jordan? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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