Bug 322 - No way to restart a failed FTP download FDIV016
Summary: No way to restart a failed FTP download FDIV016
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: bin (show other bugs)
Version: Unspecified
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody)
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Reported: 1995-04-09 13:20 UTC by uhclem%nemesis
Modified: 1995-04-09 13:20 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description uhclem%nemesis 1995-04-09 13:20:40 UTC
[FDIV016]

During the installation process, if you select FTP downloads and the
transfer of a files for one reason or another, there is no way to recover
other than completely starting the install process over.

In my case, I was down to one of the last of the files that makes up
the bin distribution (although this could happen during any distribution)
and I the remote system apparently crashed.  I got:

	421 Service not available, remote server has close connection
	98304 bytes received in 8.4e+02 seconds (0.11 kbytes/sec)
	Continue with mget?

Of course you can't answer the question.  If you press CTRL-C, you get:

	User interrupted Aborting installation

and the system immediately reboots.  If you answer "n" the system takes
off and tries to extract with what it has (which should fail).

Fix: 

There needs to be a way to restart an entire download if something goes
wrong without having to restart the entire installation process.


*END*
How-To-Repeat: 
Umm, ok, start an install, select FTP download, and during the transfers
unplug your network cable.  That ought to produce errors similar to the
problem I encountered.
Comment 1 jkh freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 1995-06-24 16:36:04 UTC
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

old install program