hi,

as there's discussion about the installation from cdrom, i've 2 questions:

1) if i install from cdrom, why the sysinstall doesn't ask about the 
network set-up? i know, it isn't needed, but then i have to do it by 
myself (and i had little problems finding out all things that have to be 
set up :o)). i know, i can do the set up (it's somewhere in 
utils/network setup in sysinst), but these settings are not written to 
the appropriate files on disk (ftp install offers "do you want to make 
these settings permanent and write them to /etc/... ?")

2) do you have problems installing system from floppies/ftp? i tried 
many times and in last 6-8 months, i experience lots of failures... 
what's the problem? i think it's somewhere in ftp or pax. i'm able to 
set up the network connection, ftp starts retrieving the files, but as 
pax starts to unpack them, it always coredumps. is it possible that the 
archives aren't retrieved completely? i was told that the ftp 
distributed on the installation floppies doesn't have checks whether 
complete file was retrieved (because of the limited size of the medium 
issues) :o( . i experienced this behaviour at various ftp servers 
(ftp.netbsd.org, ftp.de.netbsd.org, ftp2.de.netbsd.org). or it's my 
fault? am i doing anything bad? it worked for me before, but now... :o( 
the files that cause problems the most are man.tgz, text.tgz, sometimes 
archives connected with X... i've 100mbit connection, so the speed 
shouldn't be problem - i'm able to get data from the net at 
~2mbytes/second...

regards,
lubos

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Lubos Vrbka
National Centre for Biomolecular Research
Masaryk university, Brno, Czech Republic

shnek@chemi.muni.cz
http://www.chemi.muni.cz/~shnek
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