From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 10 08:39:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA00590 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 08:39:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from fsr.com (root@starfish.fsr.com [207.141.24.46]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA00582 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 08:38:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from redfish.fsr.com (glen@redfish.fsr.com [207.141.24.35]) by fsr.com (8.8.2/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA06379 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 1997 08:38:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 08:37:39 -0800 (PST) From: Glen To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FTP installation problems Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Over this last weekend I tried to install FreeBSD on my home pc. I was able to go through all of the initial set-up without a hitch. But when it came to actually downloading FreeBSD, the installation program would lock up. I know that it must be the installation program because I have an external modem and I would watch the send and recieve LEDs on it during the download. When installation would lock up, I would still be connected to my ISP but no information would be being sent through the modem. I tried several times to install using FTP in both active and passive mode but it would always lock up after downloading anywhere between 200K and 2M. The last several times I tried to install, I set on the debugging information in vty2 to high. The last thing to appear in the debugging terminal each time, was the message: "Opening BINARY mode data connection for bin/bin.ag (240640 bytes)." ^^ ^^ THIS would be different each time, but the message would be the same otherwise. I was using PPP(no ethernet card, just a modem). Any ideas on what the problem might be? I really want to install FreeBSD... Glen