--- "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > on Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 11:52:53AM -0700, Hamma > Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to upgrade from v2.2r17 to woody and > have > > been able to apt-get update. When I do an apt-get > > dist-upgrade, my ISP drops carrier. > > Immediately? Or after some time? After some time. The download is approximated at 16 hours and I would see about 8 go through with no problem. > > apt-get will resume a download in progress. If > necessary, force a loop: > > $ while ! apt-get dist-upgrade -d; do :; done > > ...will download packages, repeating, until > successful. > I'll try that this weekend. I'm using pon to connect to my ISP and when I try to poff, I get no connection available. However, I wasn't around when it dropped. Thanks for the info, I think I need to refocus my attention to the *NIX environment. Wouldn't have thought of that.
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