From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 1 09:31:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA01086 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 09:31:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from netcom20.netcom.com (root@netcom20.netcom.com [192.100.81.133]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA01081 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 09:31:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jdfb@localhost.netcom.com [127.0.0.1]) by netcom20.netcom.com (8.6.13/Netcom) id JAA14517; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 09:30:43 -0800 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19970201173300.00691fd8@netcom.com> X-Sender: jdfb@netcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 12:33:00 -0500 To: questions freebsd From: "J.D. Beary" Subject: HELP ME PLEASE... Installation problems Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk hello, i am having a really frustrating time installing freebsd over a ppp connection. Here is what happens. I select the packages i want to install and i dial up my service provider. I have it dynamically assign both the gateway and the ip address by putting both 0.0.0.0 in both fields. (I tried putting just 0 in the ip field, as the documentation states, but to no avail). I login in fine through the ppp program and then the installation begins. it logs into the ftp server fine and transfers about 300k of files and then hangs up. I have tried many different configurations and also three different modems (all on com1) at 2 different speeds (28.8, 14.4) I am very curious as to what the problem was. I have also tried installing the 2.2-BETA, instead of the released version 2.1.6 that i was previously installing. I called up my isp but they said it should work fine so i dont think that the problem is their. I have tried many different ftp sites also. PLEASE HELP ME! i am at wits end! thank you -jd ps i tried to install it over a dos partition, but it could mount my hard drive on /usr or something.. i would like to get the ppp problem fixed though. thanks again. -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQBtAzHnHAYAAAEDALbb++pGAkGjdzacWURkcg1UTyNk1lmJjnX/2L+SLzM+6uVy QKCBeneoacOytHSIMzPhbRum8Q/UKQyb5cV1iYtxblTaAlxFEiwYXmbmyVIpCh7K TLA7/niHnKs42ChEsQAFE7QWamRmYiA8amRmYkBuZXRjb20uY29tPg== =CUMQ -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----