Hi, I'm just curious about how other people succeed in installing the potato release. Myself, I have always had _lots_ of trouble when trying that. First, I installed it at home, and dselect freaked out and started complaining over files that didn't exist. This was due to the fact that ftp downloads the softlinks that point to slink packages instead of the actual files. That time I had downloaded the whole lot with ncftp. I downloaded another time using wget with the option to get real files. That worked better, and dselect found all files. Still, the big problem was dselect because it complained about so many things it flipped out and refused to install any more packages (I barely got a working system). Last week I tried the same thing at work, installing over ftp, and I thik the installer also downloaded just the links, but not the actual files, so this time I wasn't even able to boot the system after running dselect. After this I installed slink instead, and it worked like a charm.
Of course, I know that it's an unstable release, but is it really this hard to install, or is it me doing something wrong? If I could just get it installed properly (I run it at home, but had to do a lot of manual tuning, and adding all packages I wanted using dpkg --force* instead of dselect), I would be glad to report problems, and also fix some, but as it is now that the installation doesn't seem to work at all for me I really don't feel like reporting problems because the fault probably lies in my installation anyway. How are you installing potato? Is there some magic way to make ftp install work when there are soft links on the server? Is there a way to make dselect go on installing other packages even though it finds ten faulty packages first in the list? (This way I could add those ten manually afterwards). Thanks, Staffan Hamala
