If you chose non-anonymous ftp install, it appends a series of hex characters where the username/passwords should be (as seen by ALT-F2 or F3). it keeps retrying, with no luck
Passed to a QA engineer to reproduce.
hmmm ... it works here in test, w/the VC3 messages as follows: * found total memory tag: "MemTotal: 62884 kB" * 62884 kB are available * reverse name lookup worked * transferring ftp://foobar//mnt/7.0/i386/RedHat/base/netstg1.img to a fd * created inode * done loading 3174400 bytes * transferring ftp://foobar//mnt/7.0/i386/RedHat/base/netstg2.img to a fd * created inode * done loading 4194304 * got url ftp://username:%29%29%29%29%29%29@foobar//mnt/7.0/i386 * found url image ftp://username:%29%29%29%29%29%29@foobar//mnt/7.0/i386 * getting ready to spawn shell now * probing buses where does your VC output differ from mine above ...?