Re: ftp installation hangs

[Aaron Jackson <jackson@negril.msrce.howard.edu>]

>It would be a better to download the files first, but the router box
>(a basic Debian Linux 2.0 install) isn't setup to serve ftp, and there are
>some library problems in getting it to do that. I'm not even sure if it
>would address the problem, unless the problem has something to do with
>passive mode ftp in the OpenBSD installation.

I'll be the first to admit that I don't know anything about Debian
Linux, but every unix, unix-like system I have used has been able to
serve ftp, that is unless it has been disabled.  It's not an
inetd.config issue?  Anyway, I did an ftp install from my power mac
running linux and it took about two or three minutes for a complete
install.  I think that the slowness of the connection is what is causing
the problem.  I have heard about the same type or behavior from other
unixes with net installs.

Aaron Jackson		jackson@msrce.howard.edu