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

[John]

On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 14:03, Gareth Ablett wrote:
> Hi John.
> 
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> 
> 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.

The general plan, was that to have a distro that can be updated/upgraded
without having to totally re-install the thing everytime a new version
comes out i.e. install it (knoppix or gentoo or whatever) and then
tailor it. 

TBH knoppix has so many things that I don't even know what half of them
are, let alone use them :)

> 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) 

I've never had problems with opera in the past, hence it was a natural
choice to just "fire it up".

And no, things never got as far as finishing the download(s) it seems to
slow down and eventually stop, If I then hit the stop and resume
transfer it will start again, but then usually stops completely showing
an error in the transfers window.

Had firefox before I started meddling, but preferred "proper" mozilla
(it seemed to have less snags when I was checking out my feeble attempts
at writing xhtml documents/viewing said!).

I'll have another go with mozilla though and see if that shows the same
symptoms!

regards

John D.