Erik Forsberg wrote: > > When I use dselect, with the debian distribution mounted from a local > nfs mirror, it really takes quite a horrible time telling me it's > skipping deselected packages. I'm not so interested ! :) > > I think I've read somewhere there is a way to get dselect to just > install the packages I've asked for, and quit. Without taking half a > year listing all availiable packages. > > Am I wrong ? Where do I RTFM ? >
I don't know where you may have read it, but I got tired of watching the endless stream of messages too. So I now have all my computers use ftp. Here are my general notes on the subject; 1. mount the cd as /cdrom, i.e. mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom 2. set dslect to use ftp 3. use passive mode 4. username is some name other than root 5. password for that user 6. debian directory is /cdrom 7. ftp proxy is no 8. distributions is stable ( thats all thats on my cd ) I think thats all I did to get it to work. I also do that on other machines instead of NFS or switching cd's or anything. Try it, I'll bet you like it. I do :) Can't seem to get apt to work the same way though! Patrick
