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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: HELP ME PLEASE... Installation problems
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On Sat, 1 Feb 1997, J.D. Beary wrote:

> hello,
> 	i am having a really frustrating time installing freebsd over
> a ppp connection.  Here is what happens.  I select the packages i want
> to install and i dial up my service provider.  I have it dynamically
> assign both the gateway and the ip address by putting both 0.0.0.0 in
> both fields.  (I tried putting just 0 in the ip field, as the
> documentation states, but to no avail).  I login in fine through the
> ppp program and then the installation begins.  it logs into the ftp
> server fine and transfers about 300k of files and then hangs up.  I
> have tried many different configurations and also three different
> modems (all on com1) at 2 different speeds (28.8, 14.4)
> I am very curious as to what the problem was.  

Does the transfer appear to stop after that time, and perhaps wait for
more than 5 minutes?  If the xfer gets delayed then ppp may cut you off.
Try executing 'set timeout 0' before 'term' and see if that helps.

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