From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jun 16 00:01:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA05944 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 00:01:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from csmd2.cs.uni-magdeburg.de (prinz-atm.cs.uni-magdeburg.de [141.44.30.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA05939 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 00:01:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jesse@prinz-atm.cs.Uni-Magdeburg.DE) Received: from quitte.cs.uni-magdeburg.de (quitte-atm [141.44.30.41]) by csmd2.cs.uni-magdeburg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA29873 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 09:01:30 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by quitte.cs.uni-magdeburg.de (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA11105; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 09:01:30 +0200 Message-ID: <19980616090130.52751@quitte.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 09:01:30 +0200 From: Roland Jesse To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Download problem References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.76e In-Reply-To: ; from Brian Schaffner on Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 10:37:23PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 10:37:23PM -0500, Brian Schaffner wrote: > particularly large packages like the jdk and star office. The packages > appear to download fine, right up to 100% in Netscape. Then it just Did you try to download these specific files "by hand", i.e. using ftp from the command line? If that succeeds, Netscape causes the problem. > So, I moved my /root to /usr/local/root (larger partition) made a link > and tried that. Moving root's home directory to a partition that needs to be mounted separately from / at system startup is IMHO not a good idea and the best thing to do. Roland To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message