Firstly, there's no explanable reason why you shouldn't be able to download the ISO's when so many (hundreds?) of thousands successfully have, and especially when it comes to ftp sites, so many of them have the ability to continue broken connections that the ftp client you use should be able to support that feature and successfully download the ISO.
Trying from the couple of ftp sites you mention and stopping at the same spot indicates you have some other issue other than the actual ftp sites you're ftping from. I've successfully installed from ISO's many a time. In answer to your question below on what to do next, I start by forcing an rpm install of the X environment again. Michael. --- gregory mott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is it all a ruse? can rh9 not be installed from > anything other than cd? > > hey, i've got adsl now. so why not download the > iso's, right? it gets > exactly as far as 102400000 bytes, then craps out, > that's why. no > matter if i use rsync or gFTP (from an up2date'd > rh7.3 box). i tried > redhat and two different mirrors. does anybody > actually download > iso's? what's different about me? > > i tried downloading and making the latest version of > rsync (2.5.6). > same thing. > > so i rsync'd the whole tree instead of the iso's. > anaconda-9.0-4 seems > to have an "oldhd" install method for this. but it > dumps a stack trace > trying to set protection on a partition? i tried > anaconda --debug, and > i can s(tep) and n(ext), but i can't c(ontinue)? > what am i missing > here? > > i also tried method=ftp://. hey, this one actually > got about half way > through! but i must have suffered a network hiccup > or something. some > generic error message about a package that couln't > be unpackaged, and > anaconda barfed it instead of retrying it. > > so i restarted it as an upgrade. this actually > finished! and it > runs.. sort of. lots of things work fine. except > X. anaconda must do > some mysterious magic setup step for X that i didn't > get. init > complains it is respawning too fast and disables it. > the XFree86 log is > apparently configured to /dev/null, so i can't see > what's going on. > > so what would _you_ do next? just get the cds, > right? but hey, i've > put this much effort into it.. come on, what would > you try next? > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
