Re: LILO

[Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net>]

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On Thursday 25 October 2001 06:56 pm, Scott Henson wrote:
> OK I have lilo set up and everything.  I put the entry for windows 98
> into lilo.conf.  I upgraded to the lastest version of lilo in
> testing.  And now I cant change the mbr.  I run lilo after editing
> lilo.conf, but after I reboot lilo only has linux as its options. 
> The new entry for win98 doesnt show up. Also apt wont install x or
> anything related to it.  I got kde installed, but when ever I do
> apt-get task-x-windows-system (or whatever it is) it says it the
> pakage doesnt exist.  Also I try going into apt-cache search efree86.
> It returns a pakage, but I get the same pakage doesnt exist error.  I
> am reading the pakage lists and everything, but apt wont get certain
> pakages. It just says they dont exist.  I think it my have something
> to do with apt-get update.  It always complains about not getting all
> the indexes.  I do have the latest version of apt and all other
> relevant pakages.  I did a dist-upgrade to testing.  I am totally
> confused as to why this wont work properly.  Thank you for any help.

You need to have a succesful 'apt-get update'  (fix that first) once 
you do try using 'tasksel' it has a 'task xwindows' option.
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Greg Madden

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