Re: Install of debian-4.0r2 on NSLU2

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

On Dec 29, 2007, at 12:50 AM, Del Merritt wrote:

> Earlier tonight I filed an install of debian-4.0r2 on a Linksys  
> NSLU2 bug report to submit@bugs.debian.org; in a nutshell, if you  
> don't happen to be in front of your ssh session when the 2+ hour  
> install gets to the "Configuring popularity-contest" prompt - which  
> requires human intervention - the ssh session can timeout on the  
> slug.  When you come back (and ssh to the slug) you get told there  
> was an error when selecting and configuring the software, and you  
> can't seem to get around it.
>
> Is this a proper place to ask for workarounds, or is it better to  
> wait for the bug report to "settle in"?  If this is the place, what  
> is the best way to figure out how to pick up in media res and  
> successfully finish the install?
>
> Thanks and Happy New Year,
> -Del

I don't know if this will do what you're looking for, but you might  
try setting the "ServerAliveInterval" to a small non-zero value in  
your ~/.ssh/config file.

Rick