Installing from FTP: unable to transfer the GENERIC distribution

[Антон Клесс]

If I just ping FTP server from installer's shell for minutes, it will show
me packets loss if some, right?


2010/4/25 Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>

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> On 24/04/2010 22:41:13, Антон Клесс wrote:
> >>  Suspect hardware on the second system?  Try escaping to the shell
> >>> (Alt-F4) after pulling down some of the distribution sets and see if
> >>> 'netstat -i' shows interface errors.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I tried to, but  (Alt-F4) does nothing.
> >> Should it work in "Standard" installation method or "Custom"?
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > This time I lucky: "Base" distribution set get right, and when "Generic"
> > started downloading, I reached the console you mean.
> >
> > netstat -i says there are no errors.
> >
> > second console says following:
> >
> > /stand/cpio: invalid header: checksum error
> > /stand/cpio: warning: skipped <number> bytes of junk
> > /stand/cpio:  : No such file or directory
> >
> >
> > While downloading, such messages run out very fast.
> > Then, sysinstall says:
> >
> > User confirmation requested
> > Unable to transfer the GENERIC distribution from ftp://ftp10.freebsd.org
> .
> > Do you want to try to retrieve it again?
>
> Hmmm... well, the best theory I can see that fits the observed symptoms
> is that you are getting packet loss while trying to download the
> distribution sets for your second system.  Packet loss usually means
> dodgy hardware.  I think you'ld have to be seeing quite substantial
> packet loss -- more than about 5% -- or the normal TCP retransmission
> stuff would fix things at the cost of a rather lower than normal
> download speed.
>
> It's pretty hard to diagnose such problems from the installer -- try
> booting the machine from a livecd and using a more capable environment
> to work out what's going wrong.
>
>        Cheers,
>
>        Matthew
>
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