thanks, paul and mika- I have done so many of these lately, I forgot to check reselv.conf.
my bad, but I appreciate the willingness to help when a noobie makes a stupid mistake... best, m On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 08:02 +0000, Paul Weaver wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:28:50PM -0400, martin yazdzik wrote: > > Dear M and friends, > > > > Just for information, and please realise I am not complaining: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # chroot /mnt/sda4 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # apt-get update > > Err http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid Release.gpg > > Could not resolve 'www.debian-multimedia.org' > > Err http://ftp.de.debian.org stable Release.gpg > > Could not resolve 'ftp.de.debian.org' > > > > Note that, when my experimental partition(/mnt/sda4) is plain old > > debian, I do the same thing and can do all package management or > > upgrades, install drives, and so on, from my working workhorse grml > > install, but, as now, when the /mnt/sda4 is a grml install, something > > stops me from using my internet connexion to fetch things. I think it > > may be a bind issue, or not? > > Check /mnt/sda4/etc/resolv.conf -- it should have a nameserver entry the same > as > your /etc/resolv.conf file. > > E.G. On my creaky laptop I have > cat /etc/resolv.conf > nameserver 192.168.18.1 > > Which works, and > cat /mnt/suse/etc/resolv.conf > nameserver 10.0.0.2 > > Which doesn't work after chroot to /mnt/suse > > changing /mnt/suse/etc/resolv.conf to > nameserver 192.168.18.1 > > Means that ping does work > _______________________________________________ > Grml mailing list - Grml@mur.at > http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml > join #grml on irc.freenode.org > grml-devel-blog: http://grml.supersized.org/
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