First forgive my frustration, it's been a _long_ painful weekend trying
to install unstable on a newly upgraded computer :-(
In any case, I seem to be having serious problesm with the lates
unstable disks. I could not get the base system installed using the
menu, because it kep failing during the gunzip | tar -xf stage of the
base2_t.tgz step.
Finally tarced this down to gunzip failing. So i gunziped base2_2.tga
to base2_2.tar on another machien. mounted it's disk, and did the
following:
cd /target
tar -xf /installmount/base2_2.tar
That got me installed. The after fighting with LILO for a whiel, and
discovering a missing allias in /etc/modutils/alliases for my ne200
card, I though "Whew, at least i can now turn dselect loose, and sit
back for a while" WRONG!!
dselect is unable to gunzip the packages files! The gzip I have on my
syste is brok! OK, I think I'll just garb the gzip package of the ftp
site, and use dpks -i to install it. WRONG! dpkg core dumps, probably
because it's trying to gunzip somethin, I geuss.
Can some kind soul PLEASE give me some advice on where to go fro here?
OH BTW I had to ftp to the debain box, because the ftp that's on there
dies witha can't find libncurses.so.5 error!
Iam _not_ having a good weekend!
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Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] 843-745-3154
Westvaco
Charleston SC.
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Windows 98: n.
useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and
a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit
company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
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