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To: dcastle <chris@enteract.com>
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Subject: Re: installing freebsd troubles
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Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 19:41:48 -0700
From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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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