Re: [Hamm Install] Dselect/ftp, what is this error message ?
=?us-ascii?Q?Francois_Gouget?= wrote:
>
> 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 ?
1484820 + 1641064 = 3125884 so the second message is that 1641064 remain
of the 3125884 total.
>
> 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 ?
No - see above
>
> I finally managed to download the entire file but it is only 262680
> bytes long. So what are the numbers displayed above ?
It looks like you had some kind of silent failure or bug. So remove
and then get perl again. Even better, dpkg --remove perl_5.004.04-6.deb
and then deselect + the package.
> Does the ftp method support reget ?
>
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