updating

[wenall]

When I open Debian there pops up on the right lower screen the message that I have updates and all. So I do a ctrl/alt/f3, sign in as root and then the password for root. which comes up as: root____, whereby I do an apt-get update; it starts the update process and says it is working 99% then it tells me to insert the debain disc, I do. But it seems there is some kind of error going on, it keeps telling me about buffer I/O errors on device sr0, logical block 331172. It goes back to the 99% working[1***,******] end request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1324688......any ideas?

[fanderal]

Not sure why you're updating from the disk. Is the installation finished and booting okay? Do you have a working internet connection?

[dE_logics]

You need to uncomment and comment a few lines in /mnt/debian/etc/apt/sources.list

[ramin.honary]

...it keeps telling me about buffer I/O errors on device sr0, logical block 331172. It goes back to the 99% working[1***,******] end request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1324688......any ideas?

/dev/sr0 is your DVD drive, and if there is an IO error, your disk is probably damaged. It may be a just be smudge on the disc.

You shouldn't need a disc though. As you are trying to update, and you see the percentage bar at the bottom, what it is doing there is downloading the information -- digest files -- that list the various updates that have been made to the master package repository. If it succeeds, the update process will try to match your system to the master, while ignoring the stuff from the master that you didn't explicitly install onto your system.

If one digest file fails to download, however, it cannot continue because updating your system on incorrect information can really screw things up. You need to find out which files it failed to download. It could simply that the Debian guys are having problems with their server, and the problem will go away if you wait a day. Or if you are in a hurry, you can point Apt-Get to a different mirror server of the master repository.

Find out which files failed, and get them from a different mirror. Open a terminal, run this command as root:

apt-get update

and copy-paste the line that indicates that a file failed to download. We may be able to help from there.

[wenall]

Sorry about the delay getting back to you. I went and got a new cd image burned and loaded it when it told me to and this time it finished. I also did and upgrade instead of an update before I used the cd to update and that installed all the updates and security updates which didn't need the cd to be loaded.