Re: apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink.
At 08:46 PM 1/19/99 -0700, you wrote:
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>On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:
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>> > >What happens if my ppp link dies in the middle?
>> >
>> > apt-get will pick up the download when you re-connect, keeping
>> > downloaded packages in /var/cache/apt/archives with partial downloads
>> > in [...]/partial. It doesn't install a thing until it's downloaded
>> > the lot, so make sure you have enough disk space.
>>
>> What happens if you don't have enough disk space?!!
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>Well space in the archive is checked before download begins so it probably
>shouldn't happen. But if you run out then it will abort will lots of
>errors and never call dpkg. If you run dpkg and then run out you -should-
>be fine but strange things have been reported...
>
this actually happened to me last night while running dselect. I ran out
of space
while apt was http downloading, and it errored out on me. I freed up some
space,
restarted the install, and it seems to be humming away fine.
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