[Sussex] Bloody Distros (again!)/knoppix downloads

[Gareth Ablett]

Hi John.

 From: John D. [mailto:big-john at dsl.pipex.com]
 Subject: [Sussex] Bloody Distros (again!)/knoppix downloads
 
> Hi list,
> 
> Recent distasters have made me reconsider distro's i.e. the installing
> mandrake 10.1 community went pear shaped, as did the "fit of pique"
> installing of knoppix 3.4 to my hard drive, arriving back at mandrake
10.0
> official.
> 
> I've sent off for a set of Gentoo discs - Yup, a glutton for
punishment.
> 
> In the mean time, because my attempt at knoppix went to "rat shit",
I've tried
> to download it again (well a couple of times).
> 
> Using opera 7.54 to locate and download I've noticed that it gets so
far, and
> stops, the only way of continuing being to hit the actual "stop"
button and
> then "resume the transfer".
> 
> Any idea's as to how I'd find out whether it's my end, my ISP (pipex
adsl
> account) or the mirror that's causing the download to stop
unexpectedly (and
> yes the attempts at download have all been at various times)??
> 

sorry to hear your having bad luck. Have you tried a new version of
Knoppix I had a go at HD install of the latest release and then added
gnome with out a problem but tbh as a distro for continued use it's a
little too packed full of software I will never use.

For on I don't use Opera so am not sure if it would be the software but
the best bet is to eliminate as much as possible. 

Just out of interest do you run a checksum on the file after to see if
it is in deed complete.

All you can do is try a different mirror and a different browser (I
recommend firefox) 


Gareth Ablett
Systems Developer

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