Well since I'm doing it as we speak, I might as well write out what works, since I got all this nice help from the list with my problem, and in the fassion of supor models makeing their speachs ' if I had a hundred grand, I would buy everyone a puppy so they could feal the love I'm fealing now! ' except I'd give you all hamm.
well here is how I did it (and made it work :) first I booted on the 1.3.1 installation disk, went through for a bare install (bare minumum to get on the internet) in my case that was configuring the eth0 device. I gave it my debian CD and it installed the base system etc. Then i made mya ccounts, (after restarting) and when dselect came up I hit exit. I then obtained a copy of the auto up to libc6 off the Debian www sight (well I ftped it from a friend) ran it and upgraded my dkpg so I could then do a *working* ftp install of debian. at this point those of you useing PPP will have to use dselect and your CD to setup your PPP connection (but nothing more .. you will get all the other stuff from Ham.. ie no X no libs no bitchx..). Then when you are connected and have run the autoup.sh script (with a base system it should have no problems seeing as nothing is installed to conflict with it) then run dselect choose FTP ftp.debian.org (passive or not.. I don't go through a firewall so I use non-passive and no proxie) the base dir is /debian then when it asks you to tell it the stable non-free contrib dirs type in: dists/frozen/main dists/frozen/non-free dists/frozen/contrib walla enter. it should connect (if your inet works ..) adn see the dirs are there, then select update and wait while it grabs the package files. sometime along hte way it will ask you if you want to remove your old package lists. say yes so you can choose from a Hamm only installation. now go through and select, when you hit installation you can leave your computer going for however many days its nessicery to download all that kewl new Hamm crap. the rest of the installation goes regular This was done on a compleetly clean system. I downloaded the packages to /tmp deleted them afterwards and am now a happy hip ham user. mad pheer. -p (J. Steinbrecher) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
