On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 01:49:49AM +1100, Kaleb Daark wrote: ... > I have now downloaded both kernel-source-2.2.17_2.2.17pre6-1.deb and > kernel-source-2.2.15_2.2.15-3.deb, first from ftp.de.debian.org, > ftp.au.debian.org, and ftp.debian.org which seemed to go OK, dpkg even > installed them with no errors, but when unpacking I received: > .. files in archive ... > kernel-source-2.2.15/drivers/net/sktr.c > kernel-source-2.2.15/drivers/net/sktr.h > tar: Skipping to next file header
...more woes skipped > I can't see how there could be two corrupted archives, with two different > versions of the package, on the three different servers I have tried. > So I downloaded, from ftp.aarnet.lkams.kernel.org linux-2.2.17.tar.bz2, and > linux-2.2.17.tar.gz, (no small task over a 56k link), and when I check the and suddenly it downed, I had spurious corrupted dowloads in the past. fixed it with what is the name... to rearrange irq priority... installed hwtools... editted /etc/rc.boot/hwtools and replaced the line with #irqtune with /usr/lib/hwtools/irqtune my machine couldn't keep up with the modem as harddisk etc intervened, but that was way back in Hamm, so YMMV -- groetjes, carel