I remember spending a week and as many as a dozen attempts to download Debian Sarge on a high-speed cable connection several years ago. As well as I remember, it was a fruitless endeavor.
It seems to me that any DSL connection is unreliable. Technology takes time. On 1/27/08, Malte Schmidt-Tychsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Package: apt > Version: 0.7.9 > > When downloading large packages from an ftp source, e.g. evolution-commen > (>40MB) or linux-source-2.x.x apt downloads said package, but doesn't > realize when the download is finished. It stalls at 100% and, after a couple > minutes timeouts and either continues with other packages, or if all others > are done prints an error message for the package it couldn't download. > > My current workaround is using an http mirror for repositories with > potentially large packages like main. > > I would like to add that wget also stalls on large packages downloaded > from an ftp source. But with wget I can ctrl-c out of the stall and the > package is still downloaded (because, like apt it stalls after the > download). But apt seems to throw away the package instead of keeping it. > Also, if I let wget run it will attempt another download after a long > stall/timeout and then realize that the package is already there and exit on > itself. > > My computer is connected to a router that has a wireless land connection > to another router that had a dsl connection to the internet. But apart from > the above problems everything (including voip for example) works fine. > > Malte > -- > GMX FreeMail: 1 GB Postfach, 5 E-Mail-Adressen, 10 Free SMS. > Alle Infos und kostenlose Anmeldung: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freemail > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
