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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!news.larc.nasa.gov!lerc.nasa.gov!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!usc!hookup!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!bofh.dot!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: My next problem.. Date: 1 Jun 1996 02:33:45 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 42 Message-ID: <4oo6lp$1ed@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <4o7tck$sgp@zip0.zipnet.net> <4ocqq1$bko@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: anorak.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : pitlord@zipnet.net (Eric Ogren) wrote: : > I switched to alt-f2, : > and a bunch of files scrolled down the list...the last one being : > /stand/ls. : > What's supposed to happen next, and how can I make it happen? : Well, all the ``files'' up to /stand/ls aren't files, but only hard : links for a single file that will just follow then. The file is : rather large (perhaps half a megabyte or so), and that's where the There are actually two binaries in 2.1-RELEASE, one with 58 links at 802816 bytes and one with 17 links at 456940 bytes. The 'ls' link is to the big one ! : real work for your network card is starting. (Everything before was : just kidding, only a few bytes in either direction.) : If nothing happens then, something in your network setup seems to be : broken (or perhaps the network driver -- what card are you using?). None I suspect - he was originally asking about COM ports (albeit in a different thread). If you try again, wait a while. Assuming a bad 28800 connection (even with compression and all that) - ie, loosing packets because of an intermediate "bad" connection, I get them from the UK to Japan - don't give up for about 40 minutes. If that still doesn't work, have a look on ALT-F4. If you've got a shell, have a look around in the /mnt/stand directory. Check for a growing file.... If the ALT-F4 screen isn't there yet, you'll have to get an external modem and check out the transmit/receive lights. Personally, I've never gone this route. If your machine already has either DOS or FreeBSD on it (or you have local access to a machine), download the distribution first. Installations are a lot quicker ! -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....