OH MY God 3.7!!!

[babelbrennt]

I have been working on (blundering through) a remaster for knoppix for web applications. I stuck with 3.7 -en to keep things simple for the people who this thing is for. (i.e.no having to find the relevant cheatcodes etc.) and also for me as I have never done this before. Anyway my disc is b******** and I thought this may be why I kept getting dynamic link libraries full no link to /var something or other when I did dselect update until I loaded my spare CDR (as I can't find 3.7 anywhere on the net) and went to look for my packages tomcat5, apache2 etc,but they are gone/not showing in the install list anymore.. All of this worked only a few days ago. ( I have messed up and reinstalled many many many times over the past week) Now I realise that it wasn't my disc or my fault!. You've killed 3.7!!! Whhhyyyyy!!

[Markus]

You mean you can't find the iso for 3.7? Here: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/dist/knoppix

[babelbrennt]

Thanks for the iso information. Do you know where all the packages have gone. up until this weekend I could do apt-cache search for all sorts of packages and then install them but when I do it now nothing happens (planner ,mysql-4.1,apache2, tomcat5 etc).. I can only get the stuff thats on the disc

[Markus]

Have you checked that your repos are working? Could be that you need older ones than these though, might even have to compile from source.
markus@mrk-fujibox:~$ apt-cache policy planner
planner:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 0.13-2
Version table:
0.13-2 0
990 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages
0.13-0.4 0
650 http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main Packages
markus@mrk-fujibox:~$ apt-cache policy mysql-common-4.1
mysql-common-4.1:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 4.1.11a-4
Version table:
4.1.11a-4 0
650 http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main Packages
markus@mrk-fujibox:~$ apt-cache policy apache2
apache2:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2.0.54-4
Version table:
2.0.54-4 0
650 http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main Packages
990 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages
markus@mrk-fujibox:~$ apt-cache policy tomcat5
tomcat5:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 5.0.30-5
Version table:
5.0.30-5 0
990 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages

[babelbrennt]

What are my repos?? When I do dselect update I get the message that there's no space for memory left . Has anything else changed.I have been using

apt-cache search<package> not apt-cache policy, but when I type apt-cache policy it just says "unable to locate tomcat5"etc

What about installing cos when I do
apt-get install <package>
nothing happens for the packages I am looking for. I am confused because up until weekend I could get evrything but since thewn it all stopped.

[Markus]

The memory thingy is probably due to your /var/cache/apt/archives being full. Either run "apt-get clean" or raise the limit in apt.conf. Then run "dselect update" again.
markus@mrk-fujibox:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
APT:efault-Release "unstable";
APT::Cache-Limit 10000000;
Apt::Get::Purge;

BTW, with repos I meant repositories.

[babelbrennt]

Sorry I took so long to reply.In between times I installed 3.9 against my better judgement and am trying it with that. I got all the software although I had a bit of trouble with mysql I think it's working. Now comes the bit I have never done before where I make the actual dis (I have been at this stage several times and then crashed and burned)c. I am going to see if I manage to finish this without messing up again and then try it with my 3.7 download because of the automatic hardware configuration. The thanks of a grateful british national goes out to you XXX