Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 22:37:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Brian Schaffner <brian@schaffner.net> To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Download problem Message-ID: <XFMail.980615223723.brian@schaffner.net>
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Help! I am having problems downloading large packages from the freebsd ports collection. I have successfully installed all of my freebsd system along with X, KDE, and many other applications without a hitch. Unfortunately, I have not been able to download particularly large packages like the jdk and star office. The packages appear to download fine, right up to 100% in Netscape. Then it just hangs... I tried to use one of the unfinished downloads, but gunzip failed (unexpected EOF). I have downloaded many large files (10 - 30 MB) from other sites without problems. I have downloaded many smaller programs (0 - 5MB) from the freebsd ports site without problems. My guess is that there's something wrong on my end - but I can't figure out what. I thought the problem was the netscape cache running out of disk space (because I'm logged in as root [its my home machine] - and the /root partition was small). So, I moved my /root to /usr/local/root (larger partition) made a link and tried that. Still no success. So, what am I doing wrong? Or could it be something on the server? It only hangs right at what appears to be the very last part of the file. Any ideas or help are greatly appreciated! Thanks, Brian Schaffner p.s. By the way I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.6, with X11R6 (Mach64 accel), KDE beta4, Netscape 4.05, connected via ethernet to Win95 running NAT1000 with 56k dial-up. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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