From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 24 21:41:36 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 214921065672 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:41:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from antoniok.spb@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.155]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FE5B8FC19 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:41:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 22so843306fge.13 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:41:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=J8EjwcKnubRJWsRBb4Z6o/sFtxddBm80UFPQ8bZR5vk=; b=GXwF/eBP5EHjSjUcVrRtZwO0oiO/GdRWjWFjIvXC3TZYuoiF/bUd9POdfHRsPVaDcD L8FjvWhByXZnvX6w7TbpPWDACBXfVRaWygo/0otxI/BhN5e1Tsklsq/BPoLp7uDInoEu 75dAoHWFAcov+dOJiAsBWzqN/0YkLoNlyuRyg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=I+NuziOSm+rfbFPjgeIyUnXrRNzTixI/o8FP4CZp5N2kSyTxmEFy9Ces83XbaN1bUa BDF996Z/8lxaSYMfB8OVCrc5XsLGIgunstxzxzLV746iKu39onIBSVhUg0NX0eKed1gJ BNLIPW4zg2672XGgXoXOAqi295MwoOY0UM+lo= Received: by 10.239.184.7 with SMTP id w7mr177350hbg.25.1272145293134; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:41:33 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.140.199 with HTTP; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:41:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4BD3526F.2090700@infracaninophile.co.uk> From: =?UTF-8?B?0JDQvdGC0L7QvSDQmtC70LXRgdGB?= Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 01:41:13 +0400 Message-ID: To: Matthew Seaman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Installing from FTP: unable to transfer the GENERIC distribution X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:41:36 -0000 > Suspect hardware on the second system? Try escaping to the shell >> (Alt-F4) after pulling down some of the distribution sets and see if >> 'netstat -i' shows interface errors. >> > > I tried to, but (Alt-F4) does nothing. > Should it work in "Standard" installation method or "Custom"? > This time I lucky: "Base" distribution set get right, and when "Generic" started downloading, I reached the console you mean. netstat -i says there are no errors. second console says following: /stand/cpio: invalid header: checksum error /stand/cpio: warning: skipped bytes of junk /stand/cpio: : No such file or directory While downloading, such messages run out very fast. Then, sysinstall says: User confirmation requested Unable to transfer the GENERIC distribution from ftp://ftp10.freebsd.org. Do you want to try to retrieve it again?