Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 22:29:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@keystone.westminster.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970915222739.3096T-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970914012332.15257A-100000@keystone.westminster.edu>
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On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > Or your ISP? > This is also not impossible; I've notice no troubles from the Win95 > machines. > > > Try running `set timeout 0' before running 'term'. This disables the > > long-space disconnect, which you may be having trouble with if your link > > to the FTP site isn't that great. > Tried; didn't work. > Didn't think that was the trouble; I've been averaging between 1.6 and > 2.7k/sec over my 28.8 link, so it's not a problem there. It just keeps > going along at a pretty decent speed, and then <click>. > And I have to start all over again. I wonder if this is the information overload bug rearing it's ugly head again. There was (is?) a known bug with ppp that will cause it to drop out under heavy traffic. You might try a newer boot floppy and use the options menu and tell it it's installing 2.2.2-RELEASE instead. > I hope that there's something easy here; I'd rather not have to (for the > third time) pull down a zillion files and transfer them, six at a time, > onto a zillion floppies, and sit at my computer switching floppies for > hours. I did that with 2.1.6, and with 2.2.1; that was more than enough > for me. If you're doing an upgrade or have a supported removable disk, did you know you can download the files ahead of time to a directory structure and then install files from the local FS? It takes longer than over a local net link because of the file access but saves you some problems if the boot floppy is giving you pain. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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