Apt-get :: HD install, 404 error on mirrors

Quote (PacShady @ Jan. 05 2007,23:32)

Quote (meltdown_override @ Jan. 05 2007,23:29)

is there another mirror we could try?

Did you read my post above?

'Shady

only after I made my post, i thought it would be cool to try and triple boot two different linux's and freebsd. its now 32 hours later and Im seeing double. Now that I have fully toasted my hard drive, At least I got dsl running and synaptic downloading packages like it should. its time for bed!oh btw what happened to the original oldstable mirror for the U.S. I never could find sndconfig under it after getting synaaptic to work.(the mirrors posted aboved saved my soundcard) thanks.

Quote (meltdown_override @ Jan. 06 2007,00:07)

oh btw what happened to the original oldstable mirror for the U.S. I never could find sndconfig under it after getting synaaptic to work.(the mirrors posted aboved saved my soundcard) thanks.

Glad I could help

It seems the US mirrors (and most other mirrors by the looks of it) appear to have taken down Woody (Debian 3.0, the version of Debian DSL takes it's deb packages from), perhaps to move it to their archive mirrors. If you followed the advice of those on the front page, and simply changed the sources.list to draw from stable instead of oldstable, you were actually downloading deb packages for Sarge (Debian 3.1). Sarge packages are likely to be different from packages for Woody, and so some packages might be missing (like your sndconfig) or incompatible (like my cron). The mirrors I posted above are still hosting Woody, so their packages work with DSL better than the stable packages from the US servers.

'Shady

is there a way I could make sndconfig into a local .dslpackage so I don't worry about finding it again? or better yet I could just backup the sndconfig command(as soon as I figure out how) to my music drive. anythoughts and command backups?
I would just backup the entire dsl partition,but I lack a cd-burner.

Thanks goes to PacShady for providing the active mirrors for oldstable.

I have updated the dsl-dpkg.dsl, dsl-dpkg.unc to reflect this.

I have also created a synaptic.unc

As I stated in the 3.2RC3 announcement, the menu items for:
Enable Apt and Synaptic have been removed. Those menu items really only downloaded the above programs, except their download locations were hardcoded into the core system. By keeping them separate as extensions will allow much easier and timely updates to active mirror locations.

You can find dsl-dpkg.dsl in the System section of the repository.
Both dsl-dpkg.unc and synaptic.unc are in the unc section.

Both dsl-dpkg.dsl and dsl-dpkg.unc require you to run the update option to apt-get.

sudo apt-get update

Do this before any attempt of apt-get install or using synaptic.

I've noticed that pacages from sarge are working more likely if you have installed gnu-utils.dsl. Also installing more libs from 'System' category might help in some cases. gcc etc...

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