Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 00:32:42 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: David Petrou <dpetrou@kinclaith.pdl.cs.cmu.edu> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble installing FreeBSD over PPP Message-ID: <199710152332.AAA20912@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Oct 1997 23:03:31 EDT." <199710150304.UAA08685@hub.freebsd.org>
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> > > 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.
I suspect the 10-12 snap was built before I un-spammed things....
everything should have sorted itself out by now.
> > Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <bri@OpenBSD.org>
>
> Thanks again,
> David
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <bri@OpenBSD.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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