From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 3 18:42:10 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA03228 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 18:42:10 -0700 Received: from hk.super.net (root@hk.super.net [202.14.67.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA03220 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 18:42:07 -0700 Received: from is1.hk.super.net by hk.super.net with SMTP id AA05593 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Tue, 4 Jul 1995 09:41:06 +0800 Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 09:41:06 +0800 (HKT) From: John Beukema To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: 950622-SNAP installation woes In-Reply-To: <199507032110.XAA19842@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 3 Jul 1995, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > > I'm trying now already for four ours to get a kernel on that damn box > but with these hyperintelligent scripts - your work in all honors, Jordan - > it's nearly impossible to do an enforced installation if something > strange occurs. It's not even possible to shell out at this point > and do the ftp or mount manually. > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de > FreeBSD blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de 2.0-BUILT-19950701 FreeBSD 2.0-BUILT- > I have had a similar problem with an ftp installation. It keeps failing between 50% and 90% complete. Timeouts by my ISP, I believe. I wonder if it might be a good idea to save a minimum system, ftp the bindist files with the possibility or restarting where it left off and then do an extraction? As it is I will have to do a dos installation. jbeukema