ok, somewhere there (i forget which tty) you should see atleast two
references to the nic, one for the driver and one for the ifconfig.
Do these showup? Sounds like just a little ethernet glitch, as the ftp
obviously works judgeing from the log file. Does the drive take a long
time to spin up, its rather common with local cd installs so i wouldn't
rule that out either. Maybe just Retry or copy it to the ftp servers HD.
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Dan Brown wrote:
> From: Axalon Bloodstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Looks like it's retrieveing just fine, but i've forgotten your error
> > specificly
>
> After I sent that last message, I remembered that, after failing to
> connect via FTP, I tried ftp'ing from another machine on my mini-lan,
> and downloading the file it was requesting; that worked. The log entry
> I sent was the log of _that_ request. The other requests apparently
> didn't get logged at all. In addition to xferlog (which I attached in
> its entirety, consisting of only one line), I have xferlog .1, .2, .3,
> and .4, all of 0 bytes.
>
> The problem is that when I try to install via FTP, the client
> machine shows on the screen "retrieving base/hdlist" and then returns to
> the info screen (where i enter the server address, directory, etc.). It
> doesn't display an error message there, or on console 3 (it just says
> "ftping base/hdlist to a fd") or 4. I've specified the server by IP
> address, given it the directory of /mnt/cdrom/RedHat, and entered my
> username and password on the server machine.
>
> Just for the sake of variety, I also tried mounting the CD on a
> win98 box and sharing it; when I do that I get "host unknown" errors
> even when I specify it by IP address. I also have the same problem when
> I try installing RedHat 5.2.
>
> As a last resort, I guess I could take the hard drive out of the
> client machine, and temporarily install it in a machine with a CD-ROM
> drive, but I'd much rather be able to install it over the network.
>
> Again, thanks for any help in straightening out this issue!
>
> --> Dan Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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