on 13/02/2002 22:59, Chris Tillman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 11:19:32AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> on 12/02/2002 23:16, Chris Tillman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> hmm, i'm having a similar problem, but related to the update install. here's >> the thing: > > 'update install'? You mean you're upgrading from potato to woody?
no, just from the equivalent of the floppies (installing stuff from the RAM disk) to making it a little more useable (to my POV anyway) > >> i have an HFS hard drive that i've downloaded stuff from the FTP mirror, and >> i've mirrored it on the drive. now, i can mount it, and i can cd thru the >> directories, but when i do dselect, it can't find the s/w, and i get errors. >> i've configured the mtab, fstab, and apt things, and i still can't dselect. >> i'm NOT on a network, and i've managed to install a few things thru dpkg, >> accessing that HFS partitioned drive, including some pppoe s/w needed to >> access the net thru this comp. but as u know, thru dpkg, it's a long >> process, and i'm a newbie (on my 3rd day :-)), and i have to keep track of >> the dependencies, conflicts, and so on by hand. which is confusing the hell >> out of me. > > apt-get is what dselect uses under the covers; dselect really just > provides a UI. So, you can do your tests with commands like > > apt-get install pppoe > > and it will also get everthing needed to satisfy dependencies. i'm quite aware of the usefulness, but it's not getting anything off what i put in fstab (see below) > >> ok, what i did (thru apt-setup - which btw, isn't being found anymore. (???) >> i think it got deleted, but i haven't done any deletions of files. i don't >> know how to yet) was this: > > Most likely, you tried to invoke apt-setup as a non-root user. Since > only root can modify /etc/apt/sources.list, it only makes sense to run > apt-setup as root, and it's found in an sbin directory (sbin's are not > on non-root user's PATHs). i've been doing everything as root. i quickly realised that i needed to be so after a few tries with the installers, heh. > >> in /etc/apt/sources.list, i have : deb file:/mnt/debian >> >> and i've tried various things like file:/mnt, file:/debian, >> file:/mnt/whatever. u get the idea. > > Although I haven't tried this, I suspect for a proper URL you need a > couple more slashes: file:///mnt/whatever. i did, and it gave me the same errors. in the apt-setup (which i dunno where it went, i type apt-setup and it tells me not found - although i might have been doing it as ~ and not /) it shows "file:/" and not "file:///" - despite what i've seen in browsers for years. although the setup for fstab may have not been done well, so the errors pop up. > >> in blank fstab i have : /dev/sdb6 hfs 0 0 > ^ > Might help to put 'defaults' as options here good idea, i'll try that. i wasnt sure what to put there, but i had a feeling i should. thanx. it's nice to be able to talk with someone slowly, instead of in a chat situation. i like IRC, but sometimes it's not conducive to slow thought. eric
