From owner-freebsd-questions  Wed Aug 16  6:12:59 2000
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from smtp1a.ispchannel.com (smtp.ispchannel.com [24.142.63.7])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C49737BF28
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 06:12:52 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from mhumm@ispchannel.com)
Received: from ispchannel.com ([206.31.82.8]) by smtp1a.ispchannel.com
          (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 7d3764cdaca754bf8ae20adf0db2aa60)
          with ESMTP id <20000816131440.QZCM8223.smtp1a@ispchannel.com>
          for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
          Wed, 16 Aug 2000 06:14:40 -0700
Message-ID: <399A9317.636431BC@ispchannel.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 08:11:51 -0500
From: Mark Hummel <mhumm@ispchannel.com>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; I)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Something's Wrong - 4.1 FTP install - please help!!!
References: <3999BFD1.A14CF04C@ispchannel.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

Has anyone else experienced this or know what I'm doing wrong if
anything?  My BSD system is down until I get this resolved.

Mark

Mark Hummel wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to install 4.1 STABLE via FTP.
> 
> Here's some history:
> 
> 1)  Had 4.0 STABLE installed from CD ROM  for 4 months to learn FBSD.
> 
> 2)  Ran out of hard drive space so I decided to repartition my BSD drive
> from 1087M to 2800M.
> 
> 3)  Since BSD is going to be deleted anyway, I decided to install 4.1
> STABLE via FTP
> 
> 4)  Floppy creation - easy!  Floppy boot - easy! Kernel config - easy!
> 
> 5)  After selecting all my options, I get the following error message
> for every download in sequence:
> 
> Unable to transfer the bin ditribution from
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/
> 
> I was told by a friend that the site was down for a while today so I
> waited and tried again 2 hours later.  Then 4 hours later with the same
> results.  I decided to reboot to Warp and check the site.  It was up and
> running!!!
> 
> BSD apparently recongizes my cable modem and network card (same set up I
> used with 4.0) since it was able to automatically capture my hostname
> and ISP server.  I can even watch my modem light flash for a second
> until it errors out.
> 
> Any ideas???
> 
> Mark
> 
> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message