Hartmut, > All other users with a working system: any problems with > packages / installation ... ?
Yes, definitely. As I mentioned in a previous message, lots of things (including dselect) broke when dselect updated the version of ncurses from our CD-ROM to a version that depended on newer C libraries than the base system included (maybe not the base system's fault, but it would be nice if such things were up to date). Also, the installation routine didn't work for us because the profile information wasn't present (I rechecked the base_2.2.tgz file later and found that the <base>/root/profiles directory (which pkgsel reads to find profiles) is empty. So is <base>/root/tasks.). That meant installing packages using a script which ran dpkg to install everything listed as being required, recommended, or important. The base2.2.tgz system also doesn't include device files for more than two SCSI hard disks (sda and sdb), which was a problem on my system with three SCSI hard disks, or the loop device, which can be useful for such tasks as checking a CD-ROM image before burning it. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Behind the counter a boy with a shaven head stared vacantly into space, a dozen spikes of microsoft protruding from the socket behind his ear. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ C.M. Connelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] SHC, DS +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
