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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swiss.ans.net!fonorola!uniserve!usenet From: tom@haven.uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Problem with ftp during install. Date: 31 Dec 1994 20:10:58 GMT Organization: UNIServe Online Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3e4dsi$fmg@enigma.uniserve.com> References: <1994Dec27.210117.15681@palantir.p.tvt.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip13.uniserve.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.6+ In article <1994Dec27.210117.15681@palantir.p.tvt.se>, paul@pp2.smc.south.telia.se (Paul Pries) says: >I was just going to install another FreeBSD-2.0 box this evning, but it >didn't go as smoothly as I supposed it would. >The network seems totally dead... (which reminds me of somthing having >to do with a parrot... :-)) > >Both machines connected by local thinwire, NE2000 clone network cards >in both machines, detected OK. Ping works OK (a bit slow, but OK). >When I tried ftp manually, I got the ftp-banner and login-prompt from >the server and then (between login and password) it just hangs. >With telnet I get the "connected to blablabla" message and the message >about "Escape character...". Then it hangs. Eternally. I had the exact same problem, and strangely enough, I have basically the same setup. I eventually installed from DOS floppies. Once I was able to boot up with the bindist, ftp to the same system worked fine. Tom