From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 9 22:23:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA05059 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 22:23:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line12.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.59]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA05054 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 22:23:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00365; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 22:23:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 22:23:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Rich Bornhofer cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recover from FTP install Crash? In-Reply-To: <320B4781.3407@iosys.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Rich Bornhofer wrote: > I have a question. Is there _any_ way that i can salvage the 3 1/2 > hours that has already gone into the ftp install before i lost my > connection? Um.....uh, I don't think so. :( > I had most of what i needed (wanted) of the 2.1.5R on disk, > but while loading the XFree86 100dpi fonts, i lost my link. I am not > sure what order the files are installed in, but I believe that the > XFree86 distribution was the last set to be requested. I am unable to > boot the FreeBSD system that is already placed, as i never got to finish > the install. You tried it? > I hate to think of all that time wasted, and i will be > waiting to see if anyone has any ideas of how to recover and finish the > install. I tried to immediately re-connect, but the install program just > seemed to spin it's wheels, not realinzing that the connection dropped > and no more data was transfered (i didn't think any more would be). Any > insights would be much appriciated.. Yeah, it's not nice. Luckily I've been around an Ethernet connection each time I've needed to upgrade the system, so I've lucked out on getting killed by the 2 hour auto-disconnect at the UO. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major