Bug 2829 - FTP installs can only fail once
Summary: FTP installs can only fail once
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: bin (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0-CURRENT
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: jkh
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Reported: 1997-02-27 18:40 UTC by Joel Maslak
Modified: 1997-09-02 11:04 UTC (History)
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Description Joel Maslak 1997-02-27 18:40:02 UTC 
	When an FTP install fails for some reason (FTP server refusing
	connections, selected distribution not found on server, etc),
	most of the time a reboot is needed.  Failure to reboot will
	make it impossible to reconnect to the FTP server (you get
	DNS errors often, although others have been seen).  The DNS
	server I use and my network connection work fine, if you make
	sure that you can get into the server.  If you let BSD find out
	that it can't, then you have problems.

Fix: 

Reboot everytime you make a typo.  Boot from floppy.  Eat lunch.
How-To-Repeat: 
	Install BSD.  Go into options, and change the distribution to
	something which doesn't exist.  Select your favorate FTP site.
	Go back into options, change the distribution to one that does
	exist.  It won't work.
Comment 1 mpp freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 1997-03-09 07:26:13 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->jkh

sysinstall problem.
Comment 2 jkh freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 1997-09-02 11:03:06 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

I absolutely cannot reproduce this - does this happen with 
any of the recent snaps on current.freebsd.org?