Re: Installation Problems with Installing the base system
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard E. Hawkins Esq. <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>
To: Hedrick, Brooke - 43 <brooke.hedrick@rainhail.com>
Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: Installation Problems with Installing the base system
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>> 4. Everything went fine untill installing the base system (I skipped
>> network config. as I will be using ppp)
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>did you remember to tell your ftp client "binary"? this will happen
>if you do an ASCII download, which some clients default to.
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Yes, If I hadn't, I don't believe that my file sizes would have matched byte
for byte either. I have made that mistake before though!
>> I get an error that I cannot read because dinstall is covering it up. I
>> think it says something about invalid archive format.
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>> I even created floppies and tried, but had a checksum error on the 4th
>> disk 3 times with different disks.
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>Try writing it on a different machine, this works sometimes.
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Write the disks? Any idea why there would be a problem with the base2_0.tgz
file, though?
>> I have compared the dates and files sizes of what I downloaded with what
>> is out on the network and they match.
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