Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 11:53:30PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > Hi Ethan > > > > Thanks for all your time so far. > > > > For anyone else who is coming in on this thread, I'm trying to install > > Debian on a Lombard. The potato installers set quik as the boot system. > > I need yaboot, which should work in woody. Using the woody installers, I > > get to the base-install stage of the install and then get stuck as the > > system tries to find a 'Release' or 'basedebs.tgz' file over http. I'm > > really stuck. > > use a mirror that doesn't suck giant rocks through coffee stirrers and > spew chunks all over the wall.
Um, what? At first I thought I knew what you were saying, but by the time I finished the sentence, I didn't have it any more. What are you trying to say? Chunks? On the wall? > like say: > > http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian > > http.us.debian.org has to be about the WORST possible choice, its > unfortunate its default. Are you saying this site is over taxed ... or something else? a
