Re: apt-get dist-upgrade
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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
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