Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 22:21:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Phil Gilley <pgilley@metronet.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.5 FTP install problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971026222135.12269A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.95.971025110219.29984A-100000@fohnix.metronet.com>
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On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, Phil Gilley wrote: > I'm having trouble doing an FTP install of 2.2.5-RELEASE on a 486 with > 16MB of RAM and an SMC WD8013EPC ethernet card. Configuration goes well > but the machine locks up at the "Attempting to install all selected > distributions" screen as the file transfers start. The FTP server is > a local machine and I can see where the client connects, logs in, and > gets bin.inf. At this point the client locks up. The RX light on the > ethernet card still flashes due to other traffic on the network, but the > rest of the machine is frozen. The only thing I can do is hit the reset > switch. If I watch the ALT-F2 screen during the install the last thing > I see is "DEBUG: Generating /etc/fstab file." I have previously been > able to install 2.1.7.1-RELEASE and 2.2.2-RELEASE on this machine > without any problems. Does anyone have any suggestions? Has something > changed in the ed driver? Check your settings on your Ethernet card. They may be conflicting with another device. 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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