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Date:      Mon, 2 Jan 1995 14:33:23 -0800
From:      tom@haven.uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius)
To:        Mark Imbriaco <mark@taliesin.ip.net>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HELP!  (Installing 2.0)
Message-ID:  <199501022233.OAA21827@haven.uniserve.com>

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At 04:30 PM 1/2/95 GMT-0500, Mark Imbriaco wrote:
>
>Here's the situation:  Install works fine up until I try and grab the
>bindist off of a machine with ftp.  The interface gets setup correctly
>(as far as I can tell), and ftp tries to make a connection, but hangs
>right after the username prompt.  I can telnet out from /bin/sh on the
>box, but the connection seems very jerky and sporadic, even over local
>ethernet.  I am able to ping any machine on my local ethernet, and am
>able to ping the machine that is trying to have FreeBSD installed on it,
>but I still can't get ftp to work properly.
>
>Any clues, suggestions, or advice?
>
>-Mark Imbriaco

  The exact same thing happened to me on several different installs.  I
resorted to using floppies.  Once, I rebooted with the bindist, everything
appeared to be alright though.

Tom




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