thanks Angus, for your earlier postings to others as well as to mine. Humble apologies to deb, I agree Angus Lees wrote:
> >you are underestimating the smarts of apt ;) > >(assuming there are no bugs) apt/dpkg won't let you install >conflicting packages. > >>this is not helped by the fact that i only seem to have cat and >>more; lynx, less, mc haven't loaded yet. >> > >well then, there's your first list of packages to install: > > apt-get install lynx less mc > >you currently have a *very* basic install of debian - only the barest >essentials are installed during the first phase. > did this, only got lynx and mc; debconf seems to be tied up, as the loop is still running on tty1, so less wasn't configured. I'm patiently working through the pids, hope to find the culprit. If that fails, I'll rename a file at a time till the loop dies. killing the pid doesn't work; it just restarts! I'm pretty sure the cause is, or is in, /usr/sbin/tzsetup -y -g thanks again Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
