On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 12:45:48PM +0200, Tor Stormwall wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> When installing over FTP with systinst it connects and downloads the
> files you selected to install but it seems that it reconnects after each
> file. Wouldn't it better to keep the FTP connection up and disconnect
> after all files are fetched?

sysinst gets the files by running:
	/usr/bin/ftp -a ftp://<host>/<dir>/<file>
not by attempting to feed an interactive session.
As such it really does need to connect each time.

	David

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