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99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 ...
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An extract from "man lilo"
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All hex error codes are BIOS return values, except for the lilo-generated 40, 99 and 9A. A partial list of error codes follows:

99 invalid second stage index sector (LILO)
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What ever you did, it would seem that the 1st stage couldn't find the second stage.

There can be a number of reasons for that ... If you installed a new copy of lilo, but it was incomplete, then the 2nd stage was probably missing.

If you removed the partition entry from the main table ... the 1st stage wouldn't find its' 2nd stage as a result. As it's still working through the bios untill the 2nd stage loader is brought in.

It would be interesting to see some "apt-get" log output. KDE is a large program, so there would have a lot of things that apt would have been attempting to fetch.

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took a couple of hours...
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Sounds OK, i would have thought all night ... depending on your conection that is (dial up)

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anyone know why that happened??
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Which part , the scratch, apt, Kde ?, the password ......

You can do "dummy" runs of "apt-get". I think it has a --dry-run switch. If you pipe the output to a log ... you should get a good idea on any problems that may occure during the actual update.


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i tell you what i really want to see, the starter war... where the humans first fight the cylons, before the attack on caprica...
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Yes, i hope they bring it back ... it would be good to see it complete. But those shows are rarly all figured out from the beginning. I suppose it could be said that they kinda make-it-up as they go

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hats the problem when you cut down your population in a story... you dont have anywhere to move to kill off people
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Yes, but you can save a lot of cash on salaries(grin) ... pay-day on friday ... avalanch scene on thursday ... but thats an old trick hehe

I think the ending had a definite ... to be continued ... type of air to it. As soon as they figure out were to continue it to, that is.

On your install though ... have you tryed a direct copy from the running cd to a partition. The only quirk is that you need to reset all the read-only file settings. A bit drawn out, and needs monitoring ... but interesting still ...

edit: 05/06/2005:
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the 1st stage would find its' 2nd stage as a result. ..... to ......

the 1st stage wouldn't find its' 2nd stage as a result
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jm

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