[LUG] Debian mirrors, was Strange Problem 2

[George Parker <georgeparker20@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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