-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 21 January 2004 03:13 pm, kegwasher wrote: > Help. > > I seem to have developed a problem during my update. The mirror > selected must be overwhelmed or just slow. My update time remaining > is swinging from 7hrs to 4days! Is is possible to stop and restart > without causing a mess? > > Relatively familiar with Linux, used since 94, but this is my first > machine to play with debian. So far very impressed with debian > overall. > > details of machine. > > hardware, box stock toshiba tecra8000 laptop of 400mhz PII fame. > neomagic video > opl3sa2 audio > 64megs ram, yah I know it is not much but it runs most things fine. > 6gig HD > removable CDrom, floppy or LS-120 > > Current Os, Debian woody, attempted final OS, Debian Sarge. > only added packages are opera, openoffice, flash plugin, java, and > realplayer.
apt-get , or similar, dowmloads all the packages before starting the configuration phase. You can stop & start the dl process, even the install process whenever you like. There are ways to restart or fix just about any situation. You might try netselect-apt to create a sources.list of a faster mirror. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFADxNRk7rtxKWZzGsRAjJrAJkBO/wYfxWSU8uq2TYip2DY8SKVsACeKchy kGINNzLQ6Mb2CEuCmZ8U1Js= =Xmji -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
