[Cialug] what distros were out in 1996?

D. Joe Anderson cialug@cialug.org
Sat, 21 May 2005 16:24:04 -0500


On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 10:35:19AM -0500, Darcy Baston wrote:

> 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.

Re-run 

base-config

and you'll get another opportunity to configure apt to point it
to one of the mirrors.  Alternately, 

man sources.list 

and then edit etc/apt/sources.list to suit yourself.

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