Dear friends: I was downloading 2.1 Gig of Mandrake 7.1 from metalab.unc.edu this afternoon. An absolutely smooth download when suddenly the download got stuck on kpppload. I was not disconnected. Instead, Mandrake assumed that the download was offered and proceeded to the rest of the installation: "Wait for install", "select timezone," "configure dial-up," "configure printer", "configure X-server" and, finally, "Mandrake successfully installed!" That, with half the files still waiting to be downloaded. Exactly midway through the installation (1:20 minutes of a 2:55 minute download). What's odd about this is that this is EXACTLY what happened to me two night ago at rpmfind. Precisely at the same point, that is, at kpppload. This time I made sure to turn off my USRobotics modem (which had been inadvertenly left on earlier) while I was downloading, of course, with ADSL. There is something about the kpppload file that's screwing up the rest of the downloading process. I am not talking about the rather rare case where you are told "Error with installation of file xxx.mdk" OK or Skip with Skip the default. That has happened once or twice. I clicked on Skip, wrote down the name of the file for future reference, and the download continued smoothly. I wonder if anyone else has had this problem? Thanks so very much. -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
