Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 13:20:42 -0700 From: uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com To: freebsd-bugs Subject: bin/322: No way to restart a failed FTP download FDIV016 Message-ID: <199504092020.NAA01401@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 9 Apr 95 13:37 CDT <m0ry1rF-0004vrC@nemesis.lonestar.org>
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>Number: 322 >Category: bin >Synopsis: No way to restart a failed FTP download FDIV016 >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs (FreeBSD bugs mailing list) >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Apr 9 13:20:40 1995 >Originator: Frank Durda IV >Organization: >Release: FreeBSD 2.0.0-SNAP950322 i386 >Environment: FreeBSD 2.0.0-SNAP950322 i386 >Description: [FDIV016] During the installation process, if you select FTP downloads and the transfer of a files for one reason or another, there is no way to recover other than completely starting the install process over. In my case, I was down to one of the last of the files that makes up the bin distribution (although this could happen during any distribution) and I the remote system apparently crashed. I got: 421 Service not available, remote server has close connection 98304 bytes received in 8.4e+02 seconds (0.11 kbytes/sec) Continue with mget? Of course you can't answer the question. If you press CTRL-C, you get: User interrupted Aborting installation and the system immediately reboots. If you answer "n" the system takes off and tries to extract with what it has (which should fail). >How-To-Repeat: Umm, ok, start an install, select FTP download, and during the transfers unplug your network cable. That ought to produce errors similar to the problem I encountered. >Fix: There needs to be a way to restart an entire download if something goes wrong without having to restart the entire installation process. *END* >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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