debian installation (dselect and dpkg) woes

[Marvin Bellamy]

Yeah, this was definitely an easier path to take.  My install isn't 
finished (the mirror I'm using is fast, but keeps dropping the 
connection), but at least it's not bombing out.  I think I'll still get 
the CD rather than use up drive space.  Thanks all for the help!

Mike Coleman wrote:

>Marvin Bellamy <Marvin.Bellamy at innovision.com> writes:
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>>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
>>downloaded the binary-i386 directories plus other miscellaneous while
>>preserving their relative locations under dists.  I 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.  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.
>>
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>Yeah, probably you'd need binary-all and several other things, including the
>appropriate Packages and Release files.  The organization of these directories
>has changed recently, which would probably complicate this task.
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>I wouldn't recommend installing this way unless you really know what you're
>doing.  If the machines to be installed are hooked to the net, just installing
>via download is probably easiest.  Otherwise I'd go for a CD.
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>Mike
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