Re: yet more net but no install...

[Nathan E Norman <finn@midco.net>]

On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Marcin Kurc wrote:

[ snip ]

 : If you want to install potato, make your /etc/apt/sources.list look like this:
 : 
 : deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
 : deb http://non-us.debian.org/  unstable non-US/main
 : 
 : or use any of the debian mirrors

By the way:

http.us.debian.org resolves round robin style to several mirrors ...

finn@volta:~ $ host http.us.debian.org
http.us.debian.org      A       209.197.224.62
http.us.debian.org      A       207.69.194.216
http.us.debian.org      A       209.249.97.234
http.us.debian.org      A       141.213.4.21
http.us.debian.org      A       24.220.0.13
http.us.debian.org      A       206.187.92.15

If you're getting poor performance out of http.us.debian.org you could
try these IPs one by one to see which is best, and then use that mirror
exclusively ...

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