re: starting up

["Stephen Cradock" <stephencradock@hotmail.com>]

Thanks, Kent - good to have such specific instructions.

BUT.... item 1) works  - can edit the sources.list;

then 2) apt-get update

gets a great list of package lists and settles down to parse them, but it 
fails with an

               E Dynamic MMap ran out of room

It was apparently working on one of the big lists - 
stable-main-binary_i386_Packages - which is about 6.5MB; there's an even 
bigger one coming up soon, - unstable........, which is about 12MB.

There's plenty of room on the linux partition - like 7 or 8 GB - what's 
happening?

          (man MMap gives no information)

Incidentally, this email leaves my computer with no attachments, and has 
been intensively virus-checked here and at Hotmail...

Stephen Cradock