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Re: Installation idiot test 2000 #3



On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Philip Charles wrote:
> 
> > > > 4.  I had to shuffle discs in and out of the CDROM during the install,
> > > > twice I was asked to insert the CD that was already loaded.  I am assuming
> > >                        
> > > If you are using APT this is a rather bizzar bug.
> > 
> > Curious rather than serious though, but could be symptomatic of something
> > more serious..
> 
> Was APT restarted each time it asked? It will ask the first time it is
> loaded even if the disc is in the drive.
> 

No - as far as I am aware.  Although dselect/apt does seem to work in
unpack/configure chunks, I suppose this could be apt restarting. At one
stage it asked for disc 2 (3?), did nothing and asked for disc 1 again.

Phil.

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Mobile 025 267 9420.  I sell GNU/Linux CDs.   See http://www.copyleft.co.nz



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