[PLUG] near total kablooie

[jeff <jeffv@op.net>]

It was going along too smoothly there for a while.
Then the monitor blows up.

Reboot with crappy monitor to find a much different set of messages, as if 
I wasn't running the same setup or linux.  Uh-oh.  Won't let me 
startx.   Ok, I get the message... reinstall.  GUI installer makes crappy 
monitor go haywire until I remember the ctl-alt-+ trick.

`apt-get update' runs then produces this:

E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occured while processing libwww-perl (NewFileVer1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

What I'm failing to get is that the install went beautifully the first 
time.  I didn't do anything different yet I'm getting all sorts of 
failures.  The system found the NIC but didn't set it up as eth0 (or much 
of anything else).

Bloody hell.


Willing to purchase monitor or at least KVM switch (assuming linux doesn't 
mind).  One cannot find a KVM switch at a store on Sunday (although one can 
find plenty of doofuses who have no concept of a KVM switch).  KofP 
computer show is next weekend - are refurb monitors safe?


Thanks for any input,
Jeff

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