Hello. I've installed Debian from a Debian 1.3 CD and partly upgraded to 2.1 by downloading with apt. This is my first encounter with Debian.
(1) The upgrade failed because the ftp server hung up on a small number of files. They are represented in the partial directory. How can I restart this process? It seems that a server timeout is pretty devastating in that there is no recovery and the upgrade aborts. I got messages like this: > Get:22 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main libdb2 2.4.14-1 [192kb] > Err http://http.us.debian.org stable/main libdb2 2.4.14-1 > Error reading from server - read (104 Connection reset by peer) > Get:23 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main m4 1.4-9 [105kb] I tried to find out what "--fix-missing" did, and eventually discovered that it's not very useful, i.e. it doesn't make another attempt to download the missing files. Is there any automated way of doing that or do I have do download them one at a time? When I attempt to complete the operation by running dselect install with the existing settings it seems to want to download every file again. It just downloaded 35 MB, failing on a few small files. How can I get it to just finish the job rather than starting all over again? (2) One of the packages I installed was man-db which is supposed to supply the man pager and presumably its configuration file, /usr/lib/man.conf. But that file is missing (or is not installed), and running man dumps (I assume) compressed data on the screen. I can uncompress all the man pages, or get a config file from somewhere else, but I guess dselect/apt should be able to do this. Cheers...
