On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> I am reinstalling Mandrake 6.1 by FTP. I installed it originally from
> ftp.rpmfind.net using a bootnet.img. I am unable to do so now nor to any
> of a half dozen sites, even though they are clearly not full (One had
> only 5 out of 110 connections used). I want to be sure that I have the
> right bootnet.img. It clearly says: Mandrake 6.1 and I got from
> rpmfind.net's linux/Mandrale/images directory. I keep getting an error
> message at the second stage : File not found on server and on Alt+3, I
> see "ftp.... connecting to fd". It should at this point open up an
> "inode" but it doesn't.
>
> Do I have the right bootnet.img and is there any explanation for this. I
> am using ADSL. I had no problem a few days ago.
>
I seem to recall seeing something that said the original
bootnet.img was buggy. I think there's a newer one. Try
that.
John
