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From: jds@montego.umcc.umich.edu (John D. Smerdon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: 3.0 SNAP ftp install problem
Date: 16 Mar 1997 14:05:09 -0500
Organization: UMCC, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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I tried to install 3.0-970209-SNAP using novice selection, defaults for 
everything, using ppp, ftp, and ftp.freebsd.org but the installation failed.   

The installation program or the shell didn't give any reasons why.  From the 
messages in the shell I can see that I am connected to ftp.freebsd.org and 
cd'ing into a directory. The only "error" message that I could find is:

"variable - system state was novice, now error-install"

I had the same results installing 2.2-gamma at work using the network but 
figured the router/firewall was preventing the installation.

Any ideas?
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