On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP DECRYPTED MESSAGE----- > 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 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null