From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 2 15:45:28 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id PAA07046 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Jan 1995 15:45:28 -0800 Received: from haven.uniserve.com (haven.uniserve.com [198.53.215.121]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA07025 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 1995 15:44:55 -0800 Received: from p0.uniserve.com (p0.uniserve.com [198.53.215.193]) by haven.uniserve.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA21827; Mon, 2 Jan 1995 14:33:23 -0800 Date: Mon, 2 Jan 1995 14:33:23 -0800 Message-Id: <199501022233.OAA21827@haven.uniserve.com> X-Sender: tom@haven.uniserve.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Mark Imbriaco , questions@freebsd.org From: tom@haven.uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Subject: Re: HELP! (Installing 2.0) Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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