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Re: Network/floppy Installs



On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 04:15:03AM -0700, Greg Mosier wrote:
> I've never been good with bug reporting tools so do with this as you like...
> 
> You're install over network option is for shit.  Spent hours and hours on this to the point of setting up my own mirror.  With the FTP method it sends the server a http RETR command when it gets to Packages.gz.  With the HTTP method it requests Release just fine (same as with FTP (notice a pattern?)) and just stops there, no request for Packages.gz at all.  This is using the main setup floppies (not a 'flavor'ed version).
> 
> Cheers,
> Greg Mosier

There is a quite noticeable delay, especially on slower computers, when 
the Packages file is retrieved. A routine is actually running in the 
background, which you can verify with ps -A in console 2.

Perhaps you just gave up too soon.

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