RE: [Nolug] Anyone else having troubles with debian.org?

--- Pietu <pietu@weblizards.net> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net
> [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net]On
> > Behalf Of Ron Johnson
> > Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 5:54 PM
> > To: NOLUG
> > Subject: [Nolug] Anyone else having troubles with debian.org?
> >
> >
> > All afternoon, I've been trying to submit a query to
> > http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl, but
> > it always times out.
>
> 2 weeks ago when I started trying to get into debian world, I had
> to quit my
> attempts because I could not download a single .ISO image from any
> of the
> debian mirrors. They all timed out after 8-30Mb.
>
> I tried to d/l using 4 different locations and two of my locations
> are
> almost directly on the "big" pipe. I know for sure that my
> connection was
> not the problem.
>
> I'll try again some other time when i have more to it.

That's interesting. It's worked for me. Once all their systems are
back up, and I'm fully installed, I'll let you borrow my LordSutch
CD-R. (LS is a ??170MB ISO with a small Debian on it, that I used to
install a small Woody on it, before immediately upgrading to Sarge.

Of course, the current troubles demonstrate the problems with doing
net installs...

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