I hate to ask this cause it is really a DUHHH ... How do I select the mirror that I want to go to? This is part of the address in the sources file htpp://security.debian.org/dists/potato/ binaryi386... that is not the complete address, but how do I specify the mirror that I want to use? Don --- Forrest English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apt-get install hdparm > > but, i kinda doubt that it is a latency problem on > the hard drives. i'm > guessing your connection to the mirror you have > selected in your > sources.list is just poor. try another mirror > closer to you. > > just a suggestion, but the slowest drive i've ever > seen was .89 megs a > second. which is still more than enough to not time > out waiting for data > for a dsl line, much less a modem. > > -- > Forrest English > http://truffula.net > > "When we have nothing left to give > There will be no reason for us to live > But when we have nothing left to lose > You will have nothing left to use" > -Fugazi > > On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, D. Hoyem wrote: > > > I have been trying to use the apt-get update ; > apt-get > > install communicator to get Netscape downloaded > from > > the Debian non-free site that is in the sources. I > can > > connect and download but then I get timed out... I > was > > told on #Debian irc.debian.org that it might be a > > latency problem...So I did a search on the wed and > > found quite a bit of info and it all is saying to > use > > hdparm to check your hard drive. I have 2 hard > drives > > and Debian is on hdb2(swap) 156M, hdb3(/) 5.6G. I > have > > tried as root and the response is, command not > found. > > What am I doing wrong, and will this help resolve > the > > latency problem, do I have to be in the /sbin or > > /usr/sbin to run this comand? After I find the > best > > settings when do I need to place them so they will > be > > picked up on start up? > > TIA > > Don > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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