Debian 4.0r3 for s/390, network install, maybe a problem with wget???

[Ventura <jorge.ventura@fusemail.com>]

Still trying to install Linux s/390 on Hercules emulator I get the
point of the problem. Now
I am trying to install from the debian repository at Internet.

The installation is stopping at this point:

Jun 30 19:11:28 choose-mirror[657]: DEBUG: command: wget -q
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian//dists/etch/Release -O - | grep
^Suite: | cut -d' ' -f 2

I decide to do a test in the prompt of Linux 390 install and hit two
commands,
the first:

~ # wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/Release.gpg
Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org[64.50.238.52]:80
Release.gpg          100% |
**************************************************************|
378       00:00 ETA

the second:
~ # wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/Release
Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org[64.50.238.52]:80

I don't get the file. After that, I did several tests and for small
files, wget works but for files great then 1k it doesn't
work.

Very strange. I have no idea what is happening (I think it's a bug in
BusyBox wget).

Thanks in advance,
Ventura