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Posted: April 29 2004,13:19 QUOTE

Something is not right here..

Again, I have installed a fresh copy of 0.6.3 to a computer
dsl-hdinstall to hda2, with hda3 as swap. Enhanced install.

Run the "Apps>Net>Got the bandwidth?>Firefox" script.

Repeatedly get this........

--08:07:54--  ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/firefox-i586-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
      => 'firefox-i586-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz'
Resolving ibiblio.org... 152.2.210.81
connecting to ibiblio.org[152.2.210.81]:21... connected
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.   ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall... done.
==> PORT ... done.  ==> RETR firefox-i586-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz ...
Error in server response, closing control connection.
Retrying..

This repeats many times before it just quits.
I tried to run this both before dpkg-restore and after.

Strangely enough, I just installed this on a different system
earlier this morning, and had no problems, but with the standard install, not the enhanced install..

This is a vp6, 2cpu's at 1.0gb w/ 1 gig ram.
The earlier one was a 233mmx w/96 megs ram.
(which was successful)....  Any Ideas?

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Posted: April 29 2004,20:38 QUOTE

OK Folks, this is FRUSTRATING !!

I am now at the office, and on another dual cpu box.
Similar to mine at home, VP6 Dual 933, 512meg ram.

HD install - enhanced mode WILL NOT LET ME
download firefox thru script.

HD install - standard mode - Simple easy install !?? (wHAT GIVES?)

Back to back installs - same partition - hda2

So, either I can d/l the firefox tar file and install thru usual means,
or I can find a way to upgrade out of the busybox
utils after the hdinstall.  Maybe d/l thru apt-get after
dpkg-restore.

Either way, there is still a bug or problem with the enhanced
version vs the standard install.

I don't even see the "getting firefox" message.
just the garbage I posted before this one.
[EDIT] The message is there, but it scrolls up after several retries.
Even tried running the raw .fbird_grab.pl - no luck.

Earlier in this thread, I had a similar problem with a
233mmx laptop..  I thought I fixed it, and I do have
firefox and icons installed to that one.  I will check to
see if I really did a successful enhanced install on that one.

Could the prob have to do with dual cpus??
That would not explain the laptop challenges.

Has anyone else seen similar output like in my last
post when running install script.

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Tacklebury
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Posted: April 30 2004,02:39 QUOTE

I just did a HD enhanced install on a PII-233 w/ 64mb ram but lots of diskspace.  I have no problems.  It did time out once, but second went perfect.  I did notice it wouldn't let me install it when running off the live CD.  Probably insufficient memory.  Sorry no other info here.
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Posted: April 30 2004,18:08 QUOTE

Am I the only one having this problem?  :(

24 hrs later and not even one other user here
experiencing similar output?  :(

Has anyone sucessfully used the firefox download script
after an Enhanced HD Install ?

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Posted: April 30 2004,21:31 QUOTE

I have not used the Firefox install script with an Enhanced HD install.

However, this suggestion MIGHT fix your problem:

Open an Xterm (rxvt) and type:

sudo su
cd /bin
mv tar tar.old
ln -s /bin/busybox tar
exit

Then run the Firefox install script. After the installation is finished and you have closed down the Firefox program, open up another Xterm (rxvt) and type:

sudo su
cd /bin
rm tar
mv tar.old tar
exit


Hope this works.
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