ftp install of 7.2

I am doing an ftp install of 7.2 from ftp.suse.com and everything works great, but the install always seems to hang after about 80 packages . . . text mode or graphical mode. Does anyone know if there is a way to skip a file that seems hung or to break out and re-connect without starting over? I have only been able to ctrl+alt+del and start from scratch. If I ALT+F1 to another console I see: okay, scratch that, in the graphical mode I cannot seem to switch to another console as I did in the text mode, or I am frozen completely, which I dont often see in linux :) TIA Chris