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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!hookup!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!insync!news.azstarnet.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news2.i-2000.com!news From: freyes@i-2000.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FTP install couldn't get root image Date: 11 Jun 1996 04:12:05 GMT Organization: I-2000 Inc., Internet Services Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4pirml$62o@news2.i-2000.com> References: <4p5dp3$45qk@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <31B8E5F4.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> Reply-To: freyes@i-2000.com NNTP-Posting-Host: freyes.dh.i-2000.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 In <31B8E5F4.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes: >reyes01@ibm.net wrote: >You have some network lossage at your site which you will first need to >fix. I troubleshooted the connection throuh Alt-F2 and everything seemed to be OK. Anything that could be configured wrong or causing some kind of conflict? I am connecting to ftp.freebsd.org and getting to the point where the program sends the GetFtp(...) and it just sits there doing nothing. The retries did the same >> Is there a way to create a floppy with the root image or >> is there anything I could do to resolve this problem? > >That won't help you, you'll just run into it again with the >distributions. Talk to your system administrator, I guess! There is no network administrator for that connection. :) While looking at Debug (AlT-F2) I found all sorts of interesting things. for instance the release variable (I don't recall if that was the correct name but it was 2.1.0-RELEASE) should be used as an absolute value or the program fixed. I noticed that the program does a CWD /pub/FreeBSD, then it uses the release variable to do another CWD. That is fine except that for the retries the program appends the release variable to the string 'floopies/root.flp'. At that point the program has changed the directory to /pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE. I also notice that every now other retry the word distribution came up.