Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 17:34:51 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'Kevin Everets' <keverets@reamined.on.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FTP install requires continual re-logins Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105A39@site2s1>
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Does is give any more useful errors than just asking what server to use for each file? Is it taking an obnoxious amount of time to download each one and maybe it's timing out? Did you try different servers, maybe it was that one server that was the problem. Which server did you select? Is anything useful printed on the "Emergency Holographic Shell" (vty4 I believe)? As I'm sure you can guess, it is not supposed to ask you for a server to download each chuck, it asks once and then goes from there. I don't know the answer to question #2, sorry. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Everets [SMTP:keverets@reamined.on.ca] > Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 4:49 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: FTP install requires continual re-logins > > I've installed FreeBSD from CD before, but since I no longer have a CD > handy and want the latest (stable) release, I wanted to do an FTP > install. I decided to just get the two disks for 3.2-RELEASE and go to > it. The beginning of the install goes pretty well, but when it comes to > downloading the various packages (/bin or what-have-you), it gets really > rather annoying. /bin for example is split into 106 chunks and I can't > for the life of me figure out how to avoid having to tell the sysinstall > which server to login to in order to download that chunk. > > 106 times of pressing enter twice wasn't fun. But I did it. > > And then when the DOC package came up, I decided that I'd had enough > (after realising how many packages I'd selected to install by FTP). So I > pressed 'C' for cancel (or "Canada", didn't really matter to me at that > point) while it waited for the 109th time for me to say what server to > use. At that point, the install died citing a fatal error (which I still > haven't written down, but have reproduced three times) and reboots, > after which the hard drive is left in a crap state, and I have to > re-partition/re-format the hard drive before it's usable again (which > I've been doing from the install). > > So, my questions are these: > > 1) How do I install from FTP without having to tell it to re-login 106 > times for BIN alone? > > and > > 2) Is the crash after pressing 'C' at the point that the install is > asking which server to log into a known bug? How do I find out? And > where do I submit it if it isn't? > > Thanks in advance for any help, > > Kevin. > > > > 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
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