On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 02:01:35PM +0200, Fables Bookshop wrote: > Hello, Markus, and also Stuart and Otto, for all replies. > > I made another download, on another machine, thus wrote the dvd with > another CD/DVD writer. However this process did not yield an > installable disk either. > > I then downloaded the cd76.iso. This went along happily but the > downloading of the sets stalled on base76.tgz I tried three mirrors > with the same result.
Wait, downloading as in from the internet? Why not burn install76.iso on the DVD, and install the sets from the disk itself? I have seen something similar to your problem when installing on a *really* old and slow machine (and by old and slow I mean a Soekris box with a 267MHz processor, 128Mb of RAM, and a CompactFlash card of the same vintage). Downloading would get slower and slower. I don't recall why it failed _exactly_ but IIRC had something to do with a stupidly short DHCP lease duration -- i.e. shorter than the (very long) download time -- that would interrupt the connection to the mirror. But again, if you're burning your own install media, just use the install*.iso image, or dd install*img onto a USB stick, and install the sets from there. > > I will bail out of bed after midnight sometime, charge myself up with > caffeine, and go along to the office and see if the situation improves with > an early morning installation. We are a bit challenged with bandwidth at > present here in the daytime. > > I will just check the correct drill and post a dmesg from 7.1 shortly. > > Best > Ian > > On 2025/01/13 14:50, Markus Wernig wrote: > > On 1/13/25 11:54, Fables Bookshop wrote: > > > > > It fails soon after loading the file sets, they do not load fully, the > > > %age count never reaches 100% and it then offers to reboot. I did a > > > second download, burnt a second dvd, but the process repeats itself. > > > So > > > at this point no dmesg. > > > > The only time I saw anything similar was when the CD/DVD writer that I > > had used for creating the DVD was defective and wrote garbage to the > > disk. > > -- > Fables Bookshop, Bathurst, South Africa. > Join our Africana Catalogue mailing list: > https://lists.fables.co.za/mailman/listinfo/fables-list > ... or email us with your request > --
