Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 08:17:18 -0500 From: Peter Schultz <peter@jocose.org> To: Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The sysinstall's safe_realloc() failure Message-ID: <3EA6925E.1080503@jocose.org> In-Reply-To: <20030423205823Z.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> References: <3EA59767.7070307@jocose.org> <20030423123937W.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <3EA67E47.50007@jocose.org> <20030423205823Z.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
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Makoto Matsushita wrote: > peter> Are you able to do a floppy install? > > It seems that boot media doesn't matter for this, floppy boot then > install can be failed if distribution itself comes from the network. > I'm sorry, I meant network install. > peter> The latency from Minnesota to Japan might be too high you > peter> think? > > Maybe, but I doubt it *is* the root of this problem, since some of > users in Japan also hit this problem. > Do they have a high latency connection to snapshots? I think you're absolutely correct, just because a user doesn't have a low latency connection doesn't mean a network install shouldn't work for them. Regardless of the cause, how can the error be traced? I will try a network install of 5.0-RELEASE from another high latency source. Pete...
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