[ale] [Fwd: upgrades via ftp?]

Nick Lucent nlucent at mindspring.com
Wed Apr 7 22:16:27 EDT 1999


On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Wandered Inn wrote:

Try telling it to not use passive mode (unless your going through a
firewall of course)

> Anyone ever seen this error when attempting an ftp upgrade?  I've never
> done an ftp install or upgrade, so I don't have a clue.
> 
> > How does one do upgrade via ftp.  What I just installed is fairly old,
> > although it's probably adequate for my needs.
> > Nonetheless, I thought it might be nice to upgrade, especially since we have
> > a very fast T1 here.  I've gotten past making install disk and supplemental
> > install disk, I start the upgrade process, I log into the ftp server, it
> > gets a few files and then says:
> > 
> > "I cannot get file /pub/mandrake/5.3/RedHat/base/comps: Error setting remote
> > server to passive mode"
> > 
> > I have gotten this ftp error from two different ftp mirror sites.  Do you
> > know what I have to do to get this working?
> 
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