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I tried to install Fedora 12 using a Netinstall (and an USB key). I choosed the following mirror: ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/fedora/linux/releases/test/12-Beta/Fedora/i386/os/ Download of install.img worked without any issue (in text mode), but the first download in graphical mode failed. Using Wireshark, I saw that the installer use "REST" FTP command which is not supported by the FTP server. Trace of the FTP session (in IPV6!): ------------- 220 Welcome to ProXad FTP server USER anonymous 331 Please specify the password. PASS ftp 230 Login successful. PWD 257 "/" CWD mirrors 250 Directory successfully changed. CWD fedora.redhat.com 250 Directory successfully changed. CWD fedora 250 Directory successfully changed. CWD linux 250 Directory successfully changed. CWD releases 250 Directory successfully changed. CWD test 250 Directory successfully changed. CWD 12-Beta 250 Directory successfully changed. CWD Fedora 250 Directory successfully changed. CWD i386 250 Directory successfully changed. CWD os 250 Directory successfully changed. CWD Packages 250 Directory successfully changed. MDTM authconfig-gtk-5.4.13-1.fc12.i686.rpm 213 20091003212116 EPSV 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||55688|) TYPE I 200 Switching to Binary mode. SIZE authconfig-gtk-5.4.13-1.fc12.i686.rpm 213 47824 REST 1384 501 Unknown command. 500 OOPS: vsf_sysutil_recv_peek: no data ------------- The installer proposes to retry (which doesn't change anything, the server still fail on the REST command) or to reboot the computer... The log contains "HTTP Error 501" which is wrong: it's an _FTP_ error. I guess that using HTTP (http://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/...) would also fail because a friend told me that Free doesn't support partial download. Expected result: If the partial FTP/HTTP download is not supported by the server, just ignore this option (download the whole file).
I tried "wget -c" on other computer to check if Free does support partial download or not: --------------------- GET /mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/fedora/linux/releases/test/12-Beta/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/authconfig-gtk-5.4.13-1.fc12.i686.rpm HTTP/1.0 Range: bytes=26518- User-Agent: Wget/1.12 (linux-gnu) Accept: */* Host: ftp.free.fr Connection: Keep-Alive HTTP/1.0 200 OK Connection: keep-alive Content-Type: application/octet-stream ETag: "-449956574" Last-Modified: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:21:16 GMT Content-Length: 47824 Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:08:08 GMT Server: lighttpd/1.4.19 ..........authconfig-gtk-5.4.13-1.fc12..(...) --------------------- wget annonces the range "Range: bytes=26518-" but Free HTTP server ignores the header. I don't know if anaconda works or not with Free HTTP mirror.
This will be fixed in the anaconda-13.x series which will be in rawhide (but not F12) by getting rid of all our old FTP code. Instead, we are using libcurl there.