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Re: woody network installation problem: "Can't download adduser"



On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:13:24AM +0200, Thomas Pircher wrote:
> I want to install woody from scratch over the network. I have done the
> following steps:
> - downloaded disks-i386/current/images-1.44/idepci/rescue.bin 
>          and disks-i386/current/images-1.44/idepci/root.bin
> - putted them on floppies and rebooted.
> - I selected installation over network; 'drivers.tgz' and 'Release' were
>   downloaded from http.us.debian.org.
> - But then the installation stops saying "adduser not found"
> Have a suggestion? Thanks

Retrying has a moderate chance of working: http.us.debian.org refers to any
of a bunch of machines, some of which seem to have a tendency to be out of
date at any one time.

Use something other than http.us.d.o? ftp.debian.org or ftp.kernel.org
might be good choices.

Cheers,
aj

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