Newbie Install Question - downloading and burning the install CDs, p2p

Rich Rudnick nickrud at sbcglobal.net
Sun Mar 20 06:31:36 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 22:11 -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 22:48 -0600, Tab Gilbert wrote:
> > > >>wget -c --limit-rate=40k a-complete-internet-address-like-http-etc
> > 
> > So wget did what it was suppose to do.  Burned the cd at 1x from a
> > different box of disks than the other dozen or burns.  Gets to Casper
> > -udev, I think that is the name, and fails.  I have wasted more
> > bandwidth than a Phish download site (sorry) grabbing images.  It
> > appears that Firefox saving the bin file as text was not the problem. 
> > On the Install CD I can go all the way to partition but if the Live CD
> > will not work it does not seem reasonable to go any further.  The
> > drive will start Knoppix.
> 
> You might try downloading the warty release. It's a known good, and
> would be a good reference against your knoppix download.
> 
I hate replying to myself:)     If the warty installs, just one more
overnighter will bring you up to date with hoary :)






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