Help--update killed everything

Scott Balneaves sbalneav at legalaid.mb.ca
Wed Dec 17 19:07:48 GMT 2008


On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:46:17PM -0500, Todd O'Bryan wrote:
> OK. I just noticed something strange. When I try to update the chroot area,
> if I leave it with the default repos enabled, I get no updates. If I add
> 
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu intrepid-updates main restricted
> 
> to get backports, it wants to install lilo and mbr, but I'm pretty sure I
> don't want those in a thin-client image. Is there something weird going on?
> Do I really want lilo and mbr? Should I remove them manually after they're
> installed?

They don't hurt anything, and are just part of a standard install, so you can
just ignore them.

Scott

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