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Date:      Tue, 28 Oct 1997 23:03:32 -0800
From:      Ben Pepa <bpepa@msn.bc.ca>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: windows question
Message-ID:  <l03110703b07c9011e4cb@[24.112.126.210]>
In-Reply-To:  <Pine.NXT.3.96.971028235841.916E-100000@multivac.narcissus.net>
References:  <19971028223636500.AAA490@usr2-44.pcl.net>

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Hi;

Today I got brave and decided to upgrade to 2.2.5-R (from 2.2.2-R) on our
server, but I didn't get past the "Adding default route 24.112.126.7".  It
was very slooow :-(

I left it for an hour while I got lunch, and it was still stuck there.  I
also have a NE-2000 clone, connected to a 500k connection via cable modem.
This happened 2 out of 3 times I tried to install it.  The second time, I
couldn't get any keystrokes to work in the "Visual Configuration" setup, so
I ended up rebooting it.  Gave up and stayed with 2.2.2-R.

I tried this with my other server, and it worked fine, with the only
difference being it having a 3Com card (beats my $20 NE-2000 Clone).


Ben

>Hello everyone.
>I have been able toreproduce this problem three times now, so figured I
>would write the list in hopes that maybe someone else has had this
>happen to them and might have a suggestion.
>I began installing freebsd 2.2.5-RELEASE.  I downloaded and fdimaged the
>boot floppy, and setup my partition.  I then selected the distribution I
>wanted, developer.  I then selected the media type for the installation
>which I selected ftp.  I then selected the ftp server: ftp2.freebsd.org.
> Note, I originally tried ftp.freebsd.org, but the connection appeared
>to be slow, probably heavy network traffic at the time.  I then setup my
>ed0 driver my ne2000 clone, which is connected at 128k connection to the
>internet.  All worked well.  The distribution began to install until it
>got to "chunk 7 of 7" of the info distribution.  Then, everything
>stopped.  Nothing disconnected, but everything stopped even moving and I
>left the machine alone for about 16 minutes.  I then started a new fresh
>install, and had the same results.  I then tried ftp.freebsd.org and the
>same thing happened.  Was it just heavy network traffic?  Has anyone had
>this problem?  SHould I have just left the machine alone for no matter
>how long?
>Thanks for any information.
>Jeremy






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