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Re: [LUG] [Bulk] Help Please - Debian Lenny Disk

 

On Friday 25 February 2011 01:14:56 David Hare wrote:

> http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/ is still available....It
> doesn't have to be a UK repo anyway......maybe you have a bad install disk?

I tried with a couple of different disks/versions. No error messages, just 
froze each time at exactly the same place, pointing to a repository problem.

> An alternative install method is to debootstrap your partition, then
> chroot it and build the rest from there. That's how I do my Debian
> installs.

Thanks, I took the easy way out and installed an earlier version of Knoppix, 
changed the repo's and all is well.

> Why not  Squeeze? Lenny, is "oldstable"

I Like KDE - but not KDE4 - bloated, garish, glitz to my eyes :(

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