Re: Debian 6 uninstallable?
On 05/03/11 03:10, Bret Busby wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Bret Busby wrote:
>
>>
>> On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Camaleón wrote:
>>
>>>> I tried installing the 64 bit one, and it does not proceed past the
>>>> "Configure package manager"
>>>
>>> Okay. But now at least you reached the installer. That's makes more
>>> sense
>>> to me.
>>>
>>>> Every mirroor that I tried, in Australia, and, in the USA, returned
>>>> "Bad
>>>> Archive Mirror".
>>>>
>>>> In Australia, I tried the WAIIA, iinet, UWA, au.debian.org, optus.net,
>>>> and other mirrors, in the USA, I tried the MIT, Berkely, debian.us (or
>>>> whatever it was), and others, all with the same error message.
>>>>
>>>> Surely, they can't all be lacking Debian 6 amd64 mirrors?
>>>>
>>>> I think it should be "Bad Debian 6"!
>>>>
>>>> This is the most problematic installation process that I remember.
>>>
>>> That sounds indeed very weird. One mirror can have problems but not all
>>> of them. I'd suspect from your Internet connection at the time of the
>>> installation.
>>>
>>> Did you manually specify the mirror's URI or just select one from the
>>> drop-down menu?
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Camaleón
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I selected from the drop down list.
>>
>> I will, in a few hours, try what someone else suggested - go out to a
>> console, and try to ping out, to check the Internet access.
>>
>> --
>> Bret Busby
>> Armadale
>> West Australia
>> ..............
>>
>
> Went to console, tried to ping; error returned "ping not found".
>
As root?
<snipped>
>
> --
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> ..............
>
> "So once you do know what the question actually is,
> you'll know what the answer means."
> - Deep Thought,
> Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
> "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
> A Trilogy In Four Parts",
> written by Douglas Adams,
> published by Pan Books, 1992
>
> ....................................................
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