BZZZZT!! klonk! SCRIETCH! I made a small brainfart^H^H^H^H^Herror, this in fact doesn't work if you want to reinstall as it skips everything that is already installed. And it tries to install everything that wasn't installed before :-/
*blush* I hope this didn't screw your system Instead, at step 3 do: dpkg -iRO * to recurse and install only selected packages. BTW, it never hurts to read the manpage, even if you think you know what you're doing *blush again* Cheers, Joost On Fri, 28 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > # STEP 1: > # first mount your cdrom; > # I have an entry for it in /etc/fstab, but you may > # have to specify the physical device here too > # (oh and _first_ insert the physical cd of course.) > # > mount /cdrom > > # STEP 2: > # cd to the right place in the directory tree of > # your favorite debian release on the cd. > # YMMV because the layout changed a bit recently. > # > cd /cdrom/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386 > > # STEP 3: > # make dpkg do its thing. > # read the fine dpkg manpage to learn what the > # "GREB" options mean exactly. > # ####dpkg -iGREB * # RHAAH! BAD! instead do: # dpkg -iRO * > # STEP 4: > # depending on what is on your cd, you may want to > # reiterate steps 2 and 3, substituting "contrib", > # "non-free" or "non-US" for "main" in step 2. > > Cheers, > > > Joost > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
