On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:

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> On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, [ISO-8859-2] Pawe³ Sakowski wrote:
> 
> > Debian 1.3.1
> >
> > Why does installation of packages via dselect last so long? It checks (I
> > don't know why) all the packages on the cd. What for? It already knows
> > which packages need installation.
> 
> You are right.
> 
> Now Debian 2.0 contains a much better tool to install packages called
> "mountable", which will appear as one more dselect access method as soon
> as you install the "dpkg-mountable" package.
> 
> This new dselect method is *much* faster and makes the old "cdrom",
> "mounted", "harddisk", and "nfs" methods to be virtually obsolete.

For bo you can grab APT for BO and use it with your BO cd, it is the
fastest..

Jason


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