debian installation (dselect and dpkg) woes
Don Erickson
derick at shark.zeni.net
Tue Apr 30 12:14:20 CDT 2002
In article <3CCD4121.3060201 at innovision.com> you write:
>I don't have the CD, I FTP'd the debian CD's relevant binary
>subdirectories. "...downloaded the CD..." was a really bad way for me
>to phrase that.
I had hoped that this was the case.
>could be missing something else...possibly, I need binary-all? When I
>attempt to install packages, I see error messages that indicate dselect
>is looking in dists/potato/main rather than dists/stable/main.
dists/stable/main should be symlinked to dists/potato/main. You might
check that.
In any
>case, I thought there might be something obvious and boneheaded I was
>doing wrong. I haven't put in an honest effort to resolve this I guess.
> Ordering the Debian CD is probably the easiest way to go.
I've heard of issues when downloading trees in ascii mode vs binary mode
via ftp, there's a remote possibility that this is related. Do you have a
fast conection to the internet? If so then the easiest way to to select
an ftp install (http usually works from behind a firewall) and let it
roll.
Regards,
-Don
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