On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > Well, over here in modem-by-night land, things go a bit slow. However, > I've got my two systems doing their thing (alternating with the one phone > line) to help out. > > System a: Doing an install from 2.1.4 disks, looking good. > System b: Doing an upgrade from an out of date slink, wait and see time. > > Big problems now are with mirrors. Non-us is pretty bad, but (was is > Hammish that posted it?) I've got another mirror to try. Also, I can't > get a good download of Branden's latest X packages. However, I'm guessing > he'll get another set before I finish downloading this set. Anyone feel > like mirroring Branden's directory on master? I'm also trying the > 2.2.0-pre3 kernel. I can't get ppp running (that's why I'm upgrading my > main system today, hopefully it's an old package), but it looks like an > interesting road ahead. That was the first time I tried to make a kernel > as modular as I could.
Yes, Hamish's mirror looks pretty good. I've also had good results with ftp.jimpick.com for non-us, but it doesn't support http downloads with apt-get. I've tried several kernels in the 2.1.110-2.1.125 range and couldn't get ppp to work on any of them, so went back to 2.0.36. I figured out there might have been something about my system that caused ppp not to work, but now that I see someone else is having problems I'm not so sure. I moved my modem to another machine on my lan running hamm (I'll probably upgrade that one in a week or so) and am about ready to try the latest kernel again(I just downloaded the 2.2.0-pre5 patch file) on my main machine. Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
