From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 24 13:54:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ingate.uk.neceur.com (ingate.uk.neceur.com [193.116.254.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABB0A1203C for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 13:41:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk) Received: from internal-mail.uk.neceur.com by ingate.uk.neceur.com id JAA08724; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 09:46:30 GMT Received: from exchange.nectech.co.uk by internal-mail.uk.neceur.com id JAA27234; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 09:46:51 GMT from exchange.nectech.co.uk (exchange.nectech.co.uk [193.116.199.241]) id JAA27234 for (2.4-8.8.8/3.1.31); Wed, 24 Feb 1999 09:46:51 GMT Received: by exchange.nectech.co.uk with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) id ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 09:45:21 -0000 Message-ID: From: "Bond, Jeffery" To: "'FreeBSD questions'" Subject: FTP install with 3.1-RELEASE hangs Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 09:45:20 -0000 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I'm trying to install 3.1-RELEASE over an FTP connection on my small (ethernet) LAN, and the sysinstall program hangs part way through installing the 'bin' distribution. I have repeated this many times, and the hang occurs at different places through the 'bin' distribution every time. The thing doesn't lock solid. I can hit CTRL-C to abort and try again, but it fails again and again. When I do hit CTRL-C, I get an error something like "write fail: wrote -1 bytes of 1024". The HD is NOT full by the way! I've checked! This is the setup: I have the 3.1-RELEASE dist on a CD-R which I downloaded and burnt myself. I can't install directly from the CD because the problem machine doesn't have a CDROM. I did test the CD on another machine with a CDROM an it installed just fine - no problem with the CD. I have also tried a few different FTP servers on my LAN. I have tried war-ftpd and alex-ftp on a Win98 machine, and also the standard ftpd on another 2.2.7-RELEASE machine on the LAN. sysinstall fails the same way each time. In the past, I've installed 2.2.7-RELEASE the same way on this machine without any incident. Anyone know what's up? Cheers, Jeff Bond To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message