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From: Joseph Stein <joes@seaport.net>
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Subject: Re: installation question
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970803143411.4970E-100000@localhost> from Doug White at "Aug 3, 97 02:34:50 pm"
To: chrada29@idt.net
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 20:23:53 -0700 (PDT)
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> > ok...i'm new to freebsd and i'm having trouble with the ftp install
> > i'm using a 28.8 modem :(
> > i try to run the ftp install...it gets like 300k of the installation,
> > then drops carrier
> > is there any way to avoid this?
> 
> It depends on who's dropping carrier.   If you're getting a long idle
> time, you might try doing 'set timeout 0' before dropping into 'term' to
> disable the idle timeout.

One other thing to try is this before dropping into term:

deny lqr
disable lqr

This has held up many people (including myself).