Trying to install from ftp

[CHris Rich]

Hrmm my dsl modem acts as a type of firewall...perhaps that is it?


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:34:37 +0530, Subhro <subhro.kar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you behind some kind of proxy server?
> 
> Regards
> S.
> 
> Indian Institute of Information Technology
> Subhro Sankha Kar
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of CHris Rich
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 21:10
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Trying to install from ftp
> 
> When i try to install some extra things from ftp using
> /stand/sysinstall i keep getting unable to extract distribution try
> again? of course i try again and it still doesn't work. When I first
> tried to install from ftp it gave me an error that 5.3RC1 could not be
> found on server..so in the options I changed it to any but I still am
> unable to download it.
> 
> output of uname -a:
> FreeBSD arwen.localhost.com 5.3-RC1 FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 #0: Mon Nov 24
> 18:31:21 CST 2003
> 
> So what am I doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks in advance
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