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thanks, paul and mika-<BR>
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I have done so many of these lately, I forgot to check reselv.conf.<BR>
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my bad, but I appreciate the willingness to help when a noobie makes a stupid mistake...<BR>
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best,<BR>
m<BR>
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On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 08:02 +0000, Paul Weaver wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:28:50PM -0400, martin yazdzik wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Dear M and friends,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Just for information, and please realise I am not complaining:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> root@grmllap1 ~ # chroot /mnt/sda4 </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> root@grmllap1 / # apt-get update </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Err <A HREF="http://www.debian-multimedia.org">http://www.debian-multimedia.org</A> sid Release.gpg</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Could not resolve '<A HREF="http://www.debian-multimedia.org">www.debian-multimedia.org</A>'</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Err <A HREF="http://ftp.de.debian.org">http://ftp.de.debian.org</A> stable Release.gpg</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Could not resolve '<A HREF="ftp://ftp.de.debian.org">ftp.de.debian.org</A>'</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Note that, when my experimental partition(/mnt/sda4) is plain old</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> debian, I do the same thing and can do all package management or</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> upgrades, install drives, and so on, from my working workhorse grml</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> install, but, as now, when the /mnt/sda4 is a grml install, something</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> stops me from using my internet connexion to fetch things. I think it</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> may be a bind issue, or not?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Check /mnt/sda4/etc/resolv.conf -- it should have a nameserver entry the same as</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">your /etc/resolv.conf file.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">E.G. On my creaky laptop I have</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">cat /etc/resolv.conf</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">nameserver 192.168.18.1</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Which works, and</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">cat /mnt/suse/etc/resolv.conf</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">nameserver 10.0.0.2</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Which doesn't work after chroot to /mnt/suse</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">changing /mnt/suse/etc/resolv.conf to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">nameserver 192.168.18.1</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Means that ping does work</FONT>
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