Re: [LUNI] Ach! 701c/Debian problems

From: bobby fuesz (bobbyfuesz@excite.com)
Date: Thu Mar 15 2001 - 10:37:47 CST

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    Man this is a lot of work for a "I wonder if I can do this" museum piece. I
    HAD BETTER find a good use for this thing when I'm done. :)

    Thank you to all, here's the latest...
    It is currently removing all gnome/gtk/Ximian debs, I got this working (it
    didn't wan't to remove Ximian of course) with 'apt-get remove gnome*
    --fix-missing'. It has been cranking for about 45 mins now chewing on that.
    But appears to be doing very well.

    I'm still looking for a good, light browser. I may, if after unloading this
    115M of unwanted CRAP, resolve to apt-getting konqueror and Qt, if I can get
    away with keeping the DL under 25M or so.

    I used fdisk for the partition relabeling, and believe that type 'b' is the
    closest listing to vfat available; please correct me if I'm wrong on that.

    Again, thank you to everyone, I promise I'll bring it to the next fest when
    I get it up... the laptop that is. ;)

    On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 22:43:12 -0600, luni@luni.org wrote:

    > Can you try vfat? That's what windoze calls it's file system.
    >
    > Pat
    >
    > bobby fuesz wrote:
    >
    > > Thanks for the advice... I do think they were simply unreachable. Do
    you
    > > guys have some vamped-up sources.list files or some interesting debian
    > > mirrors I should know about that don't come with the installed files?
    > > Also, I used fdisk to change what was set as a IBM Thinkpad Hybernate
    > > partition to type b/win95fat32, and it still gives me the bios error.
    > > Must be something I'm missing.
    > > But if you know of some good mirrors, please let me know.
    > >
    > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:13:30 -0600, luni@luni.org wrote:
    > >
    > > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 03:50:30PM -0800, chamster wrote:
    > > > > I'm not familiar with that site. Do they have an http version?
    > > > >
    > > > > e.g.,
    > > > >
    > > > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
    > > > >
    > > > > (Various debates as to the virtues of ftp vs. http for this sort
    of
    > > > > thing.)
    > > >
    > > > I have noticed that I seem to have more intermittent outages from
    the
    > > ftp:
    > > > sites. One big factor is that ftp.eecs.umich.edu was down or
    unreachable
    > > > for a while (I finally stopped trying), but even aside from that I
    seem
    > > to
    > > > get more consistent results both at home and from the lab, with the
    http:
    > > > flavors. Purely anecdotal data, that, as is the observation that I
    have
    > > > used ftp: sites with excellent results for a long time, too.
    > > >
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