Re: Installing woody
claiming to be Svein Erik Kro, <krosve@dph.no> said:
> When I'm installing (not upgrading, clean install) woody.
> I downloaded the disks-i386 dir and run the inslatt.bat from the reiserfs dir.
> Everything works fine until I'm installing the base-system.
> I try to connect to an ftp and get this error:
>
> Malformed Release file
> ftp://ftp.se.debian.org:21/debian/dists/woody/Release
>
> I get the same error from different sources..
>
> I tried to download the binary-i386 directory to my harddrive, and then
> install
> woody. But I get the same error..
I had the same problem. It appears that if you don't get the mirror address
right or your machine is not connected to the net on the first try, all
subsequent attempts fail with the same error.
The only way I know of to fix this is to reinstall including reformatting.
Michael
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