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Date:      Tue, 16 Jun 1998 09:01:30 +0200
From:      Roland Jesse <jesse@prinz-atm.cs.Uni-Magdeburg.DE>
To:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Download problem
Message-ID:  <19980616090130.52751@quitte.cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980615223723.brian@schaffner.net>; from Brian Schaffner on Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 10:37:23PM -0500
References:  <XFMail.980615223723.brian@schaffner.net>

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On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 10:37:23PM -0500, Brian Schaffner wrote:

> particularly large packages like the jdk and star office. The packages
> appear to download fine, right up to 100% in Netscape. Then it just

Did you try to download these specific files "by hand", i.e. using ftp
from the command line? If that succeeds, Netscape causes the problem.

> So, I moved my /root to /usr/local/root (larger partition) made a link
> and tried that.

Moving root's home directory to a partition that needs to be mounted
separately from / at system startup is IMHO not a good idea and the
best thing to do.

	Roland

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