--begin quoted message from ben, > On Sunday 27 January 2002 05:44 pm, Robert Woodruff wrote: > > > Help, I am desperately trying to find someone who can give > > me a little help. I am trying to install debian woody from a > > downloaded disc and can get only so far until I get to the > > install base function. It gives me a message of : file:/instmnt > > /pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.42_all deb was corrupt > > Then it says unable to download adduser. > > I have burned more than one copy to disc. Do I need to keep burning discs > > till it works or is there something else I am doing wrong? Robert > > if you keep burning disks from the same source that repeatedly send you the > same message, then, chances are, it means what it says. how much of a system > do you have in place? can you do an apt-get install testing adduser? if > you've got a web connection running in debian, that should be possible. if > you can get to debian.org, check the bug reports. someone may have already > sent one in. if they haven't, you could. if you don't have x going, you can > use links; it's a text-based web browser.
also remember, checksums are your friend... usually, whereever you download cd images from also has a file of checksums for those images. Makes it easy to double check whether stuff downloaded correctly. and as a bonus (at least in linux) you can do a checksum of /dev/cdrom after you burn the cd to make sure it copied correctly. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what programs do checksums on other OSs. Anybody? -- Noah Massey | fingerprint : 90AD 7AAB 0768 46AF 8C52 0695 03A2 C74D E1ED C2BF It is better to sleep on what you intend doing than to stay awake over what you've done. Attached is a digital signature which can be used to authenticate this email. For details consult www.gnupg.org or www.pgpi.org
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