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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!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ac.net!pacifier!usenet From: Andy Odendhal <andyoden@pacifier.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Interupted FTP installation. Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 14:53:30 -0800 Organization: Pacifier Internet Server (360) 693-0325 Lines: 25 Message-ID: <31C33EEA.7779@pacifier.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tech2.pacifier.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02Gold (Win95; I) I know that maybe if I RTFM, I may find the answer to my problem. I plan to once I get home this evening and print it out. I was doing an FTP install of FreeBSD. I had successfully created and booted from a floppy disk. This gave me a what seemed to be a well designed menu (one suggestion, a back-to-previous-screen feature). Knowing next to nothing of UNIX I chose Novice install. All went fine and dandy and about 3:00 am this morning my moden went off line. This would appear to be normal at this point. However, there were some post download/install questions to answer for final setup. Little did I know that, without warning, it would attempt to reaccess the installation media (my ISP). Reconnecting to my ISP accomplished nothing. (Maybe I should have waited for it to timeout.) I tried rebooting from the floppy and it wanted to start from scratch. Booting from the hard drive only revealed that installation still had a few steps to go. All I seem to be able to do is log in as root and many commands are not available at that. Is there a way to resume the installation or get the install menu from the hard drive, without re-FTP'ing everything again (knowing I may well get trapped the same way again)? -- Andy Odendhal <andyoden@pacifier.com> http://www.pacifier.com/~andyoden