Throwing errors in Xterm apt-get in Xterm
 

Hi guys,

First post here. Nice site. Glad I found it.

I purchaed a 770 anbd am trying to partition the MMC card. (2 GB).

I installed becomeroot, and oss-xterm, and did the sudo gainroot.

Now when I type apt-get install e2fsprogs, I get error messages:

Err http://repository.maemo.org mistral/free e2fslibs 1.37-2sargel
Temporary failure resolving 'reposiroty.maemo.org'

This happend for 6 or 7 other packages as well.

Then a

Failed to fetch... error

Then E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get -?


Any Ideas? Is it me or has something been moved?

I am following the steps documented here:

http://maemo.org/community/wiki/HowT..._your_MMC_card

Any help would be appreciated!

And can anyone tell me what the equivalent of Windows CTRL-C and CTRL-V are on this device? That would be sweet to know.

Thanks!

Re: Throwing errors in Xterm apt-get in Xterm
 

Wow, modertators must be really overworked here. I guess messages here have to be moderated before they are posted. Hopefully just the first post. That or there must be some nasty trolls in these parts.

Well, I used the search, and it seems like the files have been moved. I changed from mistral to gregale free non-free and still having problems. I guess it must be some nasty bandwidth problems.

I saw a post in Troubleshooting of some guy saving the .deb file on the device.

How in Unix do i change the working directory to the root of the mmc card? I did a cd \media\mmc1 and \media\mmc2 to see the files.

Any ideas would be appreciated....

Thanks.

BTW: I found the way to do a Copy and Paste. Is there a shortcut key anyone knows about.

I'm such a newb to this thing, but I do know how to walk around a unix system. Thank God for X-Term!!

Cheers!

-J

Re: Throwing errors in Xterm apt-get in Xterm
 

If you're not resolving the DNS names of the repositories then it's a network issue on your end.

Re: Throwing errors in Xterm apt-get in Xterm
 

Thanks! DNS was fine. Seems like when I was doing the procedure, I did not have a good WIFI signal. I went next to my router, and the process worked fine.

I had to replace the tar utility with the GNU tar though to solve the rebooting process. To do it, find the GNU tar and copy it to /bin. Tnat did the trick the secpmd to,e I flashed it.