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Re: Knoppix-Piggy and Debian installer



On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 04:11:38PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
> That is what I've been doing, but not a single additional data byte ever
> comes, with wget or ftp reget or whatever else. While I've had this
> problem with http transfers in the past on some large files
> (multi-megabytes usually) from *certain* websites, only the Knoppix ISOs
> have been a problem on Debian (although the Red Hat ISOs I tried to get
> for a client on his Windows XP system also had this problem - she was
> insistent that she wanted Red Hat, and knew I'd charge her less for my
> consulting time if I could do the download on her office bandwidth.) It
> is frustrating, and the main reason I want it is not for my machines,
> but for a friend to have a non-destructive way to try Linux on his XP
> box before he adds a second drive and has space to install a proper o/s
> (which I know he'll have me look after - installing the drive and then
> Linux - I'll probably even be administering the system for him over ssh
> after that.)

Is there a transparent proxy somewhere between you and the server?
Maybe it's got a corrupt copy of the ISO and just keeps feeding you
that...

-rob

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