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[LUG] Debian mirrors, was Strange Problem 2
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- Subject: [LUG] Debian mirrors, was Strange Problem 2
- From: George Parker <georgeparker20@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:45:37 +0000
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Thank you everyone for feedback on this. Let's not get too ratty
defending Debian. Bad Apple, whenever I have installed full Debian or
Mepis I have ended up with bad repositories. I know I can go and hunt
for other mirrors but I am an innocent refugee from that nasty Microsoft
and when I do an update in Synaptic or whatever and get fail, fail, fail
then I may think Mr Gates has been maligned. When I ran Mepis for a
couple of years I went to the trouble of finding good mirrors. I did
not know there is a tool to find the best and I'll try that if ever I
get full debian installed.
However, what I didn't tell you was that when I tried an install of
Debian on this new computer, as it was a distro that did give me a
display, I had problems. The install told me it had a network
connection and then gave me a list of about 10 mirrors to download the
full install from. I tried them all and it could not connect to any, so
I installed without and it could not install grub or Lilo. When I regain
my will to live I may try again.
More on my other problem re display later after shopping (if I don't get
side tracked into the pub.)
George
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