Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 01:41:13 +0400 From: =?UTF-8?B?0JDQvdGC0L7QvSDQmtC70LXRgdGB?= <antoniok.spb@gmail.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Installing from FTP: unable to transfer the GENERIC distribution Message-ID: <o2y3f1c29e71004241441j9ca175e8g66282c5fd6aa93b5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <p2q3f1c29e71004241340qe5ee0aebm494d81d099b2ce7@mail.gmail.com> References: <x2u3f1c29e71004241251r6cef49f7m8b7b2df266334b0d@mail.gmail.com> <4BD3526F.2090700@infracaninophile.co.uk> <p2q3f1c29e71004241340qe5ee0aebm494d81d099b2ce7@mail.gmail.com>
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> Suspect hardware on the second system? Try escaping to the shell >> (Alt-F4) after pulling down some of the distribution sets and see if >> 'netstat -i' shows interface errors. >> > > I tried to, but (Alt-F4) does nothing. > Should it work in "Standard" installation method or "Custom"? > This time I lucky: "Base" distribution set get right, and when "Generic" started downloading, I reached the console you mean. netstat -i says there are no errors. second console says following: /stand/cpio: invalid header: checksum error /stand/cpio: warning: skipped <number> bytes of junk /stand/cpio: : No such file or directory While downloading, such messages run out very fast. Then, sysinstall says: User confirmation requested Unable to transfer the GENERIC distribution from ftp://ftp10.freebsd.org. Do you want to try to retrieve it again?
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