Quoting Michael Noisternig (mnoist@cosy.sbg.ac.at): > Package: installation-reports > > Boot method: network > Image version: 10 Aug 2006, debian.org > Date: 10 Aug 2006 Please give the exact URL which you downloaded the images from. Without this information, there is no chance that we can give you a motivated answer. > The debian net-installer is highly unreliable in that it does neither > re-try to install packets it couldn't get from the net at first attempt > (e.g. after lost TCP connections) nor does it prompt the user what to do > in such case - it just ignores the packet. You end up with a system that Can you mention *exactly* what was the failure and *when* it did happen ? When the installer fails to download packages it *does* warn users. > Next day: re-format and re-install everything. This time everything > seemd to work fine, after reboot I got gnome by default. Now I > immediately wanted to install some other packages. BUT! Same problem > with apt-get on bigger packages! Small ones work fine, e.g. madplay. But You definitely have a problem on your network connection with the mirror you were using. Have you tried changing the mirror?
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