[Hamm Install] Dselect/ftp, what is this error message ?

[Francois Gouget <gouget@metaintegration.net>]

	I'm installing a new Debian 2.0 on my PC using the ftp method to 
download it from ftp.mi.us.debian.org. During the download I got the 
following error message:

> getting: 
dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/interpreters/perl_5.004.04-6.deb 
(3125884)
> FTP ERROR
>
> Do you want to retry downloading at once [y]:
> continue file: 
dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/interpreters/perl_5.004.04-6.deb (at 
1484820) [y]:
[...]
> getting: 
dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/interpreters/perl_5.004.04-6.deb 
(1641064/3125884)

	As I understand it the first line tells me that I only got 1484820 
bytes out of the 3125884. So why does the download restarts at byte 
1641064 as the second line seems to indicate ?

Then it failed again and I had:
> FTP ERROR
>
> Do you want to retry downloading at once [y]:
> continue file: 
dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/interpreters/perl_5.004.04-6.deb (at 
2242560) [y]:
[...]
> getting: 
dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/interpreters/perl_5.004.04-6.deb 
(883324/3125884)
	Did it restart from scratch ?

	I finally managed to download the entire file but it is only 262680 
bytes long. So what are the numbers displayed above ?
	Does the ftp method support reget ?

--
Francois Gouget
fgouget@mygale.org -- http://www.mygale.org/~fgouget/



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