Hi, I re-ran the installation, and now things are working fine. After a 900% ram upgrade (4MB -> 36) and a fresh potato installation, this old '486 laptop is running better than ever!
Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:09:38PM -0600, David Karlin wrote: > Hello, > I'm doing an installation from the potato floppy boot disk set > dated July 5, 2000. Kernel and modules are installed; plip is > configured and I can ping hosts on the Internet by name from VC2. > > Over on VC1, the installation scripts are running, and I'm at the > stage "Install the Base System". I choose "network" and leave > the download url and proxy settings at their defaults > (http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current > and proxy: none). > > When it tries to fetch the files, I get this message: > "nf_http_fetchfile :: http.us.debian.org couldn't be resolved, > Host name lookup failure (h_errno=2)." > > This seems strange, since that host responds to pings on VC2. > > Does this look familiar to anyone? > > TIA. > -- > David Karlin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Powered by Debian GNU/Linux > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- David Karlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU/Linux