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Re: Plip problems: do I need NFS server? -SOLVED



On 25 Dec 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote:
> On Tue, 2001-12-25 at 05:24, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > 
> > Got that on my desktop; neither will install properly on my laptop, for
> > some reason, but the desktop can presumably act as server and allow
> > transfer in both directions?
> 
> 
> That's troubling.  What are the error messages when you try and install
> the packages on the laptop?
> 
[snip]

The problem now seems to be solved: there was nothing in
/etc/network/interfaces. I put 
	
	auto lo
	iface lo inet loopback

And this now seems to be in order.

Still something odd about telnet - I'm posting a separate query about
this.

Thanks for your help.

Anthony

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