On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 11:53:30PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > Hi Ethan > > Thanks for all your time so far. > > For anyone else who is coming in on this thread, I'm trying to install > Debian on a Lombard. The potato installers set quik as the boot system. > I need yaboot, which should work in woody. Using the woody installers, I > get to the base-install stage of the install and then get stuck as the > system tries to find a 'Release' or 'basedebs.tgz' file over http. I'm > really stuck. use a mirror that doesn't suck giant rocks through coffee stirrers and spew chunks all over the wall. like say: http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian http.us.debian.org has to be about the WORST possible choice, its unfortunate its default. try kernel.org and see how it goes. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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