On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 02:25:46PM +1100, Russ Pitman wrote: > Over the last few days I have installed/reinstalled potato systems and > have used the apt-get update/apt-get upgrade to bring up a woody > installation.
Don't know if it helps, but for doing an upgrade of releases (and for tracking unstable) it might be better to use dist-upgrade. But I have no idea where the 'something wicked' error is coming from. > Always after the upgrade finishes apt-get fails with the 'something wicked' > error. > > I have tried using just 'nameserver localhost' in resolv.conf but unless my > ISP's nameserver is present also apt-get will not start. > > Using a potato system on a separate drive to download is poor solution, so > is there a fix I have missed? I will have another try now, which means a > reboot to potato and relogin. No mail on that one so I will back later to > report. > -- > ----russ---- > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- #! /bin/sh # ppp-address: What's my Internet Address for ppp0 ? /sbin/ifconfig ppp0 2> /dev/null | grep 'inet addr:' | sed \ 's=.*inet addr\:\([0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\).*=\1='