Thanks, Kent - good to have such specific instructions.
BUT.... item 1) works - can edit the sources.list;
then 2) apt-get update
gets a great list of package lists and settles down to parse them, but it fails with an
E Dynamic MMap ran out of room
It was apparently working on one of the big lists - stable-main-binary_i386_Packages - which is about 6.5MB; there's an even bigger one coming up soon, - unstable........, which is about 12MB.
There's plenty of room on the linux partition - like 7 or 8 GB - what's happening?
(man MMap gives no information)
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Stephen Cradock
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