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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Phil Gilley <pgilley@metronet.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.2.5 FTP install problems
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On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, Phil Gilley wrote:

> I'm having trouble doing an FTP install of 2.2.5-RELEASE on a 486 with
> 16MB of RAM and an SMC WD8013EPC ethernet card.  Configuration goes well
> but the machine locks up at the "Attempting to install all selected
> distributions" screen as the file transfers start.  The FTP server is
> a local machine and I can see where the client connects, logs in, and
> gets bin.inf.  At this point the client locks up.  The RX light on the
> ethernet card still flashes due to other traffic on the network, but the
> rest of the machine is frozen.  The only thing I can do is hit the reset
> switch.  If I watch the ALT-F2 screen during the install the last thing
> I see is "DEBUG: Generating /etc/fstab file."  I have previously been
> able to install 2.1.7.1-RELEASE and 2.2.2-RELEASE on this machine
> without any problems.  Does anyone have any suggestions?  Has something
> changed in the ed driver?

Check your settings on your Ethernet card.  They may be conflicting with
another device.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major