O.K..I can't seem to connect to my ISP, so everyone's telling me to use minicom. Fine. So I downloaded minicom*.deb DIRECTLY on floppy (Was I supposed to rawrite it?)..O.K so I specified 'floppy' as the access method in dselect, then the drive as A, and msdos as the drive format. Then dselect responded saying:
Fist I need the disks containing the Packages file(s) for the parts of the archive you wish to be able to install. If you need to install from the non-free and contrib areas of the FTP site, you need a floppy with the Packages file for the main Debian distribution. If you don't, then you just need one Packages file Insert a disk containing a Packages file, or type q to quit. I pressed enter on inserting the floppy, and dselect told me: /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/Packages does not exist /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/Packages does not exist /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/Packages does not exist So I copied the Packages file from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/Packages on the same floppy as minicom and I also copied wvdial I ran dselect again and encountered the same error. I even tried what you said, Brandon: dpkg -i minicom*.deb but it gave an error, since it doesn't know where to find the file. So I tried: dpkg -i /dev/fd0/minicom*.deb, and dpkg replied saying: dpkg: error processing /dev/fd0/minicom*.deb (--install): cannot access archive : not a directory Errors were encountered while processing /dev/fd0/minicom*.deb So then I tried dpkg -i /dev/fd0, but I got dpkg-deb:/dev/fd0' is not a debian format archive dpkg: error processing /dev/fd0 (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb--control returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing /dev/fd0 Could someone tell me how to install minicom and/or wvdial from floppy? -----Original Message----- From: Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Michelle Coelho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, January 28, 1999 11:53 PM Subject: Re: Fw: Help!!! Can't connect to my ISP using pon >On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Michelle Coelho wrote: > >> If it's not too much to ask..could you tell me step-wise how I should >> install minicom. > >One step: dpkg -i minicom*.deb > >It's quite possible that the default strings pppconfig gives you will be >correct. Just don't select pap when the time comes. > >Good luck, >Brandon > >+--- ---+ >| Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.resnet.wm.edu/~bhmit1 | >| The above is a completely random sequence of bits, any relation to an | >| actual message is purely accidental. | > >
