From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 25 16:10:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA14137 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 May 1997 16:10:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from onyx.interactive.net (root@onyx.interactive.net [208.192.224.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA14091 for ; Sun, 25 May 1997 16:09:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ithaca (root@host020.nyc.interactive.net [208.192.234.120]) by onyx.interactive.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA15821 for ; Sun, 25 May 1997 19:09:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ithaca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ithaca (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA00727 for ; Sun, 25 May 1997 19:07:16 -0400 Message-Id: <199705252307.TAA00727@ithaca> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 05/05/96 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FTPing 2.2--Great Progress, But.... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 19:07:09 -0400 From: "Christopher J. Booth" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Yesterday I recieved some great advice on how to approach trying to ftp FreeBSD 2.2. I labored from dusk to dawn (with a midnight interlude for Ben & Jerry's ice cream), and learned much. Since I did learn a lot, I don't grudge the time or lost sleep. But now I am at a logjam and don't know how to progress. I now know how to boot with -c to get my sio2 modem working--cool!--, and I have managed to dial out having booted from a 2.2 boot/install floppy, but I hang at logging in to a FreeBSD ftp site. I've tried every ftp site listed at FreeBSD.org as being a U.S. site. No difference at any. Dialing out seems to go fine. I hear the modem do its thing, and I hear it negociate with my ISP as normal. Doing "show log" indicates that I have logged in successfully. I do alt-F1, recieve a warning that I will lose data on my hard drive if I continue, see a few install mesages, and finally the following message: Logging in to ftp@ftp.freebsd.org. After a few minutes of nothing else another window comes up with the message: Couldn't open FTP connection to ftp.freebsd.org: Unknown error Can anybody advise me on this? Thanks to you all. This is a great list. ps: When I hit alt F2, I key in the following--am I missing something that will enable the ftp? set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \"\" AT&F0 OK-AT-OK \\dATDT\T TIMEOUT 60 CONNECT" set login "TIMEOUT 5 ogin:-\\r-ogin: word: " dial Then it dials, connects, and.... -- ________________________________ Chris Booth cbooth@onyx.interactive.net