Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 22:39:52 -0800 (PST) From: Mushroom TheCat <thecatm@yahoo.com> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0 Stability Message-ID: <20000324063952.2236.qmail@web3906.mail.yahoo.com>
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Ok here's what happened, I think it could be bad networking somewhere but FYI... The initial install went fine. I managed to down load the binaries and basic components with no trouble. (From behind a plug-proxy Gauntlet firewall) 10 Min's later I had an error message on the build of fetchmail that implied that I needed the compat22 and 3x libs. I started the /stand/sysinstall program and selected the required distributions. I chose the same setting's as before (ie FTP) and then selected the master site at ftp.freebsd.org. The machine just hung at the logging onto freebsd.org screen. thinking it was simply an overloaded server I tried another site ftp2.freebsd.org and got the same message. I then tried the server again and it failed with ftp connection in wrong state. I tried a number of different combinations of ftp site and even tried to install some packages which worked. I also had the same problems with downolading the ports collection via /stand/sysinstall/ which failed. Eventually I resorted to using ftp manually and collecting my components from the command line (learning a lot about the install process at the same time). Worthy of note here is the fact that mget failed on ftp once, it just hung the Xfonts. All a bit strange as I then did an ftp install of 3.4 and had not a single problem. Hope this helps! Thanks for your time. MCT --- Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> wrote: > On 23 Mar 2000 22:27:39 -0500, in > sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >Please don't flame me for asking, but should I > expect > >4.0-Release to be stable. > > It has been very stable for us, as well as a number > of people. > > > >I know there is a difference > >between stable and release. It's just that I have > >just had to back down to 3.4 Release because I > >couldn't get a whole raft of components to build > >properly or get the sysinstall program to download > >selected distributions. > > If you tell the list what specific problems you are > having/had, then > perhaps someone can point out where you went wrong, > or fix the bug if it is > indeed a bug. > > > > >It kept crashing with an FTP problem. (Connection > in > >wrong state!) > > Are you behind a firewall ? > > > ---Mike > Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) > Sentex Communications Corp, > Waterloo, Ontario, Canada > "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers > could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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