[Cialug] what distros were out in 1996?

[Darcy Baston]

The good news is that woody came with a list of servers built in. The  
bad news is that although my ethernet card was detected and works  
fine with a basic Debian install (sans any other packages), it  
wouldn't setup properly during installation so I couldn't download  
anything. I kept getting "Connect (113 no route to host)" errors, and  
then it showed a server like ftp.debian.org, with the IP 1.0.0.0 next  
to it. I'm such a n00b I have no idea what all that meant.

Anyway, the base Debian is on, the net is running and I can ping   
yahoo.com or whatever just fine. I tried to get started with apt, but  
it seems it's not configured at all in /etc. The config files are  
completely empty. So I'm guessing filling those files with a list of  
servers is the next step.

Darcy

On May 21, 2005, at 4:05 AM, D. Joe Anderson wrote:

> On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 08:48:31PM -0500, Darcy Baston wrote:
>
>> Hey, with Woody, am I installing over the net using ftp? If so, what
>> server/path do you think I should use?
>>
>
> Depends.
>
> apt-spy might help you benchmark the various mirrors.