from what i read potato's disks are still needing improvement, i suggest installing slink and doing an apt-get dist upgrade
nate On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Stan Brown wrote: stanb > First forgive my frustration, it's been a _long_ painful weekend trying stanb > to install unstable on a newly upgraded computer :-( stanb > stanb > In any case, I seem to be having serious problesm with the lates stanb > unstable disks. I could not get the base system installed using the stanb > menu, because it kep failing during the gunzip | tar -xf stage of the stanb > base2_t.tgz step. stanb > stanb > Finally tarced this down to gunzip failing. So i gunziped base2_2.tga stanb > to base2_2.tar on another machien. mounted it's disk, and did the stanb > following: stanb > stanb > cd /target stanb > tar -xf /installmount/base2_2.tar stanb > stanb > That got me installed. The after fighting with LILO for a whiel, and stanb > discovering a missing allias in /etc/modutils/alliases for my ne200 stanb > card, I though "Whew, at least i can now turn dselect loose, and sit stanb > back for a while" WRONG!! stanb > stanb > dselect is unable to gunzip the packages files! The gzip I have on my stanb > syste is brok! OK, I think I'll just garb the gzip package of the ftp stanb > site, and use dpks -i to install it. WRONG! dpkg core dumps, probably stanb > because it's trying to gunzip somethin, I geuss. stanb > stanb > Can some kind soul PLEASE give me some advice on where to go fro here? stanb > stanb > OH BTW I had to ftp to the debain box, because the ftp that's on there stanb > dies witha can't find libncurses.so.5 error! stanb > stanb > Iam _not_ having a good weekend! stanb > stanb >-- stanb >Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] 843-745-3154 stanb >Westvaco stanb >Charleston SC. stanb >-- stanb >Windows 98: n. stanb > useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and stanb > a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system stanb > originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit stanb > company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. stanb >- stanb >(c) 1999 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. stanb > stanb > stanb >-- stanb >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null stanb > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 2:16pm up 143 days, 2:16, 1 user, load average: 1.73, 1.56, 1.57
