On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, Daniel Burrows wrote: > I usually use apt to fetch via ftp, but pointing it at a source archive > should do the same thing. Are you using it as a dselect backend, or are > you doing something else entirely?
I'm using it via dselect. I'll have to try that once more to be sure that it really didn't follow soft-links, but at least it looked like it didn't as I got exactly the same error-messages that I got when downloading manually with ncftp. > Wait, you mean you're trying to actually *install* potato? I didn't realize Yep.. =) > that boot-floppies even worked again! I think it's usually the case that a > from-scratch install doesn't work until the last minute. I know a Slink Ok, didn't know that. I haven't been using Debian for that long. Switched from Stampede (that I've been running since one of the first betas) in April or something. > I do it with a fairly simple approach. I install the base Slink system, but > on the reboot (after setting a root password :) ) I edit /etc/apt/sources.list > and change all references to "stable" to "unstable". I then proceed as > before. > It may be that the archive is in a weird state at the moment; I haven't done > this for a few months. I recommend just installing a small set of packages > and > then adding stuff by hand in dselect (but I recommend this when setting a new > stable system up as well -- the metapackage/task system is too broken) I'll try that next time. When I installed the last one (with slink), I actually did something similar. I installed the base system with slink, and downloaded the whole potato distribution via ftp, and started adding packages manually with dpkg. This has the drawback that I have to use various --force* options to make it replace the older versions of libraries and other things. Right now it runs ssh, perl, etc from the potato distribution. /Staffan
