On 25 Dec 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote:
> On Tue, 2001-12-25 at 05:24, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> >
> > Got that on my desktop; neither will install properly on my laptop, for
> > some reason, but the desktop can presumably act as server and allow
> > transfer in both directions?
>
>
> That's troubling. What are the error messages when you try and install
> the packages on the laptop?
>
[snip]
The problem now seems to be solved: there was nothing in
/etc/network/interfaces. I put
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
And this now seems to be in order.
Still something odd about telnet - I'm posting a separate query about
this.
Thanks for your help.
Anthony
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