Woody not ready, methinks
I was hoping to get Baltic fonts, and I had just
installed, and I read that Debian is advising new
installers to install Woody instead of Potato. So I
figured why not reinstall.
First, let me preface by naming my system. 800 Mhz
PII, *slow* permanent web link, everything else
normal.
Also, my weblink often drops connections, resulting in
crashed downloads. I can tell by the size whether it
is successful or not.
I decided to download the disk images.
Attempt 1- Downloaded 20 images. Took a few retries,
but that's what a slow permanent link is good for.
Installed them on my hard disk on a vfat partition.
Went to install. Whoops! There is no provision for
using disk images from the hard disk. Have either
tarball it or RAWRITE it. [*That*, IMHO, should
change.)
Attempt 2-RAWrote the disks. Went to install. Got to
Disk 11 -- it was no good. Had to bomb out and try
again.
Attempt 3-ReRawrote Disk 11. Went back to install
again. Got through the entire loading procedure.
Computer created Tar ball out of disks, went to
validate it, and discovered -- invalid Tarball.
Attempt 4-trying the impossible: downloading a Tarball
over Windoze and my slow line.
It looks to me like Woody is not quite ready for
install.
P.S. If you reply to this cc: me over at Mike_Rudmin
"at" yahoo.com, or I won't see it. Not that I have
to. [@ sign was spelled out to jinx spammers].
Option 3-
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