From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 19 02:29:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA17150 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 02:29:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sirius.tadpole.co.uk (sirius.tadpole.co.uk [192.52.161.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA17141 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 02:29:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by sirius.tadpole.co.uk (8.7/PIPEX simple 1.19) id KAA05020; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 10:27:45 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 10:27:45 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199607190927.KAA05020@sirius.tadpole.co.uk> From: Tim Steele To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu CC: questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: (message from Doug White on Thu, 18 Jul 1996 21:59:16 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: Great stuff so far Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I still don't know how you managed to cram so much onto the install floppy! > > It's a secret. :-) Well, it's damn clever, and (IMHO) a USP compared with all the other Unixes for the PC out there. (Why do there have to be so many? I guess purely in terms of number of machines Linux is winning, which is a pity as I prefer Berkeley.) > Did you reconfigure the system to use the proper parameters for your > ethernet card? Do you have the rebuilt RELEASE floppy? (I see you're on a > 3com card...) a) no, how would I do that? (This is an install from scratch) b) Rebuilt? It's the one from 2.1.5-RELEASE/floppies. Okay, I'm confused. 8-) Here's a further piece of data; with patience, I now get as far as Extracting bin into / directory... 1% 13140 bytes read from bin dist, chunk 1 of 69 @ 1.0 KB/sec. where it sticks. I've tried several times with different download sites but (suspiciously) it always sticks at 13140. I've also used etherfind to see what's going on... after it's stuck, you see the occasional ftp-data packet from the download site to the PC, but that's it. Any ideas? Regards Tim