Hi again,
I've just checked the 'status' file, it's there:-
steve@steve-desktop:/var/lib/dpkg$ ls -l
total 4340
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-04-11 18:49 alternatives
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1117002 2007-04-11 19:21 available
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1116729 2007-04-11 18:49 available-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8 2006-10-25 14:26 cmethopt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2552 2007-04-11 18:43 diversions
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2491 2007-04-11 18:43 diversions-old
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 147456 2007-04-11 19:21 info
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 2007-04-12 18:23 lock
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2006-10-25 14:28 methods
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-10-03 19:40 parts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 2006-10-25 14:37 statoverride
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2006-10-25 14:26 statoverride-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1002486 2007-04-11 19:21 status
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1002196 2007-04-11 18:49 status-old
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-04-11 19:21 updates
I've just tried the install again without DHCP and picking a network address that I know isn't in use, still no luck. Output from ifconfig (let me know if there's a better command for getting network config):-
steve@steve-desktop:/var/lib/dpkg$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:EA:2D:F7:86
inet addr:192.168.1.4 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20f:eaff:fe2d:f786/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:15130 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:713 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4268945 (4.0 MiB) TX bytes:83799 (81.8 KiB)
Interrupt:209 Base address:0x6000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:100 (100.0 b) TX bytes:100 (100.0 b)
Thanks, Steve.
