=?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 ? > > -- > Francois Gouget > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.mygale.org/~fgouget/ > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ----------------------------------------- Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Insert sardonic phrase here> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]