Thanks guys,
I re-flashed my n800 and reinstalled easy debian. After clearing out space, I was able to successfully download and install octave3.0 with out any issues.

Qole- Thanks so much for your work on creating an easy way to install debian, it makes the tablet much more powerful.

On a side note, I'm not sure what happened to my last install, it had plenty of free space when I typed df -h. I had sliderotate installed and think that it was causing some stability issues, maybe related, but I'm not sure.

Thanks again and keep up the good work.