From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 15 22:29:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA00833 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 22:29:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts13-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA00826 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 22:29:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA03241; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 22:29:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 22:29:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: "Matthew D. Fuller" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > Or your ISP? > This is also not impossible; I've notice no troubles from the Win95 > machines. > > > Try running `set timeout 0' before running 'term'. This disables the > > long-space disconnect, which you may be having trouble with if your link > > to the FTP site isn't that great. > Tried; didn't work. > Didn't think that was the trouble; I've been averaging between 1.6 and > 2.7k/sec over my 28.8 link, so it's not a problem there. It just keeps > going along at a pretty decent speed, and then . > And I have to start all over again. I wonder if this is the information overload bug rearing it's ugly head again. There was (is?) a known bug with ppp that will cause it to drop out under heavy traffic. You might try a newer boot floppy and use the options menu and tell it it's installing 2.2.2-RELEASE instead. > I hope that there's something easy here; I'd rather not have to (for the > third time) pull down a zillion files and transfer them, six at a time, > onto a zillion floppies, and sit at my computer switching floppies for > hours. I did that with 2.1.6, and with 2.2.1; that was more than enough > for me. If you're doing an upgrade or have a supported removable disk, did you know you can download the files ahead of time to a directory structure and then install files from the local FS? It takes longer than over a local net link because of the file access but saves you some problems if the boot floppy is giving you pain. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo