Re: Problems installing 8.1 on an alphastation 250

* J. Frisbie <[email protected]> [030710 15:49]:
> I'm running into a snag trying to install SuSE 8.1 on an
> old AlphaStation 250 that had been running rh7.2. The system
> boots off the CD fine; doing an FTP install seems to go
> all right -- it downloads the image and starts YaST. I
> answer the questions, and the "options" screen begins to
> be filled in. At that point, a pop-up says something like
> "downloading package information..." and then about 10 minutes
> later, a red screen appears saying the installation failed.
> Poking around the various consoles yields these clues:
 
Which ftp server did you use for installation? Try one of the
faster mirrors. What paths did you provide?

Stefan

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