Fellow Debs, I'm having a very strange problem doing a netinst-style installation and nobody could give me a straight answer in the IRC channel so I figured I'd reach more people this way.
I'm installing Woody from a very bare netinst boot CD (I don't remember which one, but it doesn't have any of the main packages, only the very basic 2.2.20 kernel). I get all the way up to the "base install" part, where I choose network and allow it to go download the proper packages from http.us.debian.org, and it gets as far as tar_1.13.25-2_i386.deb before stopping to tell me that "http://http.us.debian.org:80/debian/pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.13.25-2_i386.deb was corrupt" and then tells me that it couldn't download tar. This halts the installation process and I have to start over. At first it happened on the ppp package every time but eventually it got beyond that and started failing at tar. The IRC folks told me it might be because of my net card or net connection, and even though I thought it fishy that it would always fail on exactly the same package, I switched out my Linksys card using tulip.o for a 3Com card using Vortex/Boomerang (the same net card chipset I used to netinst Debian from the same CD on my laptop, in fact). I still have the same problem. What could be causing this?! I switch over to another console and use the bare root prompt to delete everything in /target/var/cache/apt/archives, forcing it to re-download all of the packages and still it fails at tar, saying it's corrupted. Downloading it on another machine and transferring it via floppy may work, I haven't tried, but that's too much of a kludge for me. Help! I must get Debian on this machine because I can't stand RedHat anymore! -- Aaron Bieber - Graphic Design // Web Design http://www.core-dev.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
