I am a total newbie with debian. I did some things with redhat and suse before. But in general I am just a curious linuxfan, because I feel that microsoft monoculture is unhealthy for my mind and wallet.
I am trying to get a fully functional debian system, but I get several corrupt packages and several are not available from mirrors.pandora.be, the mirror of my ISP (www.telenet.be). I did not tell them this (yet, but I think they wont do many effort, I guess I am not the first person who has this problem). gdm can't start and doesn't seem possible to be fix itself... unless,... by rerunning taksel or dselect? Lynx didn't even start initially when I selected mirrors.pandora.be at install but after rerunning base-config with more servers, it works now. It seems that dselect on it's own cannot retrieve a list of mirrors like the install program does (/usr/sbin/base-config) It seems that when I select multiple mirrors from within "base-config", package download is distributed over different mirrorservers but corrupted packages are not reretrieved from other servers. I am now going to exclude mirrors.pandora.be from the downloadlist and try again. I think that it would be usefull to have a tool in the apt/apt-get/taksel/dselect package that polls servers for best download speed before install and automacly selects the 4 or 5 or more best resulting servers for download. Maybe simple snmp tools like ping could be used for this or ospf or rip state. something like md5 checksums for downloaded packages and automatic reretrieval form other mirrors in case of checksum fail would also be usefull. You might say: you're welcome in our developers site :-) Maybe later when I know something more about Debian and C. Further some less important stuff, I seem not able to compile my network card drivers in the kernel. I tried 2 different 3com from the 3c9xx series: 3C918 integrated ethernet controller (3C905-TX compatible) Etherlink XL PCI COMBO NIC (3C900-COMBO) Maybe I need to give kernel parameters? Both cards are correctly probed further in the installation program though. I can use each of them for install by FTP. Thanks for any help or cooperative thougth. Joost Ringoot email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://joost.ringoot.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
