>>>>> "-Ing" == -Ing Andreas Wehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
-Ing> : home PC. Now, with Debian there seems to be no information -Ing> whatsoever on : how to choose the packages after you install the -Ing> 4 or 5 base set : floppy disks. I know that if you use other -Ing> methods like dpkg-ftp (I don't -Ing> We considered too the floppy emulsion (it's not a solution). -Ing> Unpack your multivolume tar to -Ing> your home PC into an adjaecnt partition and install it via -Ing> moundet fs. I have done this a couple of times. -Ing> : the Debian sub-directories (admin, text, tex, misc, -Ing> etc...). When I tried : to install the 1.1 release I had often -Ing> to go back to the Debian server to : get more packages that -Ing> depended on the ones I got first. -Ing> The needed information to select your packages should be in the -Ing> Packages file, if you grep the names of the wanted packages. After the base install (the 4 base floppies), there are a large number of packages selected by default. If you note each selected package in dselect, you know exactly what packages you need. Then download and tar the whole lot. -- Billy C.-M. Chow Department of Systems Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
