Steve > > Now I have a question. > > My ISP kicks me off after 2 hours online, forcing a reconnection. I know > that dselect can recover from this, but since downloads are likely to be > very large using a dial up connection, I won't get them in one go. Is > there anyway to automate the reconnect/resume/fix process so that I can, > for example, leave the system overnight unattended to get everything (bear > in mind I'm on the base system at the moment - no X windows, gui or fancy > utils, yet)
i have the same problem with my system, this is how i got round it- when you select certain packages ( like X windows ) from aptitude ( or dselect ) it automatically selects certain other required packages for installation, (you will remeber installing things on your amiga and finding you need to download xxx.library before you can run it) u can then unselect these packages by hand until the download is a size you can reasonablty download in one go (2hrs in my case). and then reselect the rest and download them. in any case apt can handle the situation where all the required files arent dowqnloaded in one go and will automatically set the failed ones for download next time u set it going hope this helps Al __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
