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Date:      Thu, 23 May 1996 19:41:48 -0700
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        dcastle <chris@enteract.com>
Cc:        hsup@pranja.cdrom.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: installing freebsd troubles 
Message-ID:  <199605240241.TAA15775@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 May 1996 13:06:39 CDT." <199605231806.NAA05411@enteract.com> 

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>    I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.1 on a compaq 486 box.  It doesn't have a
> CDROM drive, so I'm installing via FTP.  IE I ftp to another machine here in
> the office, and the CD is sitting in THAT machine.  The FTP server on that 
> machine points to its CD drive as the home directory for anon ftps.
>    I know this normally works fine because I've used this method to install
> on several machines in the past.
> 
>    Anyway, when I actually go to do the commit, it sets up the fs, ftps in,
> starts a transfer, and then a few seconds later I get this message:
> 
>    Failed to retrieve piece file bin.aa!  Aborting transfer.

Try setting the FTP failure mode to 'retry'.


> 
> Then it asks me if I want to try again.  No matter how I respond, the install
> program crashes at this point.  The sig handler says it got sig 11.

Yeah, I saw it.  No clue.  Jordan?


Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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