Dear friends: I should have clarified: I tried to download 7.1, as I have done in the past, by using a network boot image ON FLOPPY, and NOT by downloading an ISO image. I repeat: I've been using a boot image of 7.1 on floppy. It brings up the entire install process. The problem is that the download stops at the "kpppload" file, no matter what option you select, Custom or Expert, Normal (minimal - 300 megs) or just KDE. It stops at mid-point (with hundreds of packages remaining on the server and with the clock at mid-point) because that is where the first CD ends and where you are supposed to insert the second CD. But no dialogue box or warning or instructions are given at this point. The install process thinks that the download is over and just skips to the next installation stage and those that follow. You get a phony "Installation successful" message when, in fact, you really have a thoroughly crippled installation. By the way, if you were not monitoring the download but went out to have a beer, you would never even know about this because 7.1 just skips ahead past kpppload to the next stage. So, you may think your installation was a success when probably it is not. By the way, now I hear that there are not TWO but THREE CD's involved. Is that true? The exact same phenomenon occurred to me (at the exact same point) at both rpmfind.net and metalab.unc.edu Has anyone figured out a solution for this? Has anyone succeeded in actually downloading 7.1 successfully by FTP using a floppy boot image? Thanks so much. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
