Re: v1.1 ftp install is broken


Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Mon, 26 Jul 1999 07:46:14 -0600 (MDT)


Graham,

We tested ftp install on a number of systems and it always worked fine. I
suggest you look into your system/network setup.

Dan

On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Graham Leggett wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> My attempts to do an upgrade from v1.0 to v1.1 via ftp have so far
> failed. I have tried hosting the tree on two separate machines, in both
> cases the second stage ramdisk loader fails with "bad server response".
>
> A test with wget using exactly the same URL displayed in the installer
> from a different machine works, but wget from the installer is broken.
>
> NFS install also seems a bit of a disaster - it's working, but it's
> unbearably slow over 10baseT ethernet. Estimated time to do the upgrade
> currently tops 4 hours. So far it looks like something on my system,
> I've run out of time to test though, will give it another try tomorrow.
> (Hopefully halting the install part way through won't wreck the system).
>
> Regards,
> Graham
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>

Dan

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