On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 11:37:12AM -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote: > I have a computer that I have had Freebsd on previously. I recently > re-installed 5.1-release on it as I was going to make it a firewall. > Well, I pulled one of the nic out, and have been trying to do a > full install from ftp.
Try Alt-F2 to bring up the screen with more diagnostic information.
Getting a tcpdump(1) of the machines' attempt to open an FTP
connection should help give you clues about what's going wrong, if
you've got a handy box you can intercept the traffic from.
Cheers,
Matthew
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