Re: V3 Amiga install problem - update
Steve
>
> Now I have a question.
>
> My ISP kicks me off after 2 hours online, forcing a reconnection. I know
> that dselect can recover from this, but since downloads are likely to be
> very large using a dial up connection, I won't get them in one go. Is
> there anyway to automate the reconnect/resume/fix process so that I can,
> for example, leave the system overnight unattended to get everything (bear
> in mind I'm on the base system at the moment - no X windows, gui or fancy
> utils, yet)
i have the same problem with my system, this is how i got round it-
when you select certain packages ( like X windows ) from aptitude ( or
dselect ) it automatically selects certain other required packages for
installation, (you will remeber installing things on your amiga and finding
you need to download xxx.library before you can run it) u can then unselect
these packages by hand until the download is a size you can reasonablty
download in one go (2hrs in my case). and then reselect the rest and
download them. in any case apt can handle the situation where all the
required files arent dowqnloaded in one go and will automatically set the
failed ones for download next time u set it going
hope this helps
Al
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