From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 14 20:04:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA08693 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 20:04:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from kinclaith.pdl.cs.cmu.edu (KINCLAITH.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.189.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA08685 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 20:04:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpetrou@kinclaith.pdl.cs.cmu.edu) Message-Id: <199710150304.UAA08685@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Trouble installing FreeBSD over PPP To: Brian Somers Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 23:03:31 -0400 (EDT) From: David Petrou Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199710150132.CAA07700@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> from "Brian Somers" at Oct 15, 97 02:32:19 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25-40] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I'm having a hard time installing the 10-21 FreeBSD SNAP over ppp. It > > seems to connect to the ftp.freebsd.org fine, but I'm getting > > throughput of less than 100 bytes per second (yes, bytes). My modem > > is connected to my gateway at 28.8k. > > I'm not sure what the 10-21 snap is, but if it's from between October > 6 & 12, it's been fixed now. I meant 10-12. > You should be able to dodge the problem (if you can't get a later > snap) with "disable vjcomp" and "deny vjcomp" before dialing. After trying your suggestion, the install works!! I'm very grateful. I almost lost my mind trying to get FreeBSD installed. The only strange issue is that I was having problems with the 10-12 install floppy, which you claim has been fixed. Someone should look into this, as it would suck for others to go through what I did. > Brian , , Thanks again, David