On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Chris Reay wrote: > I have an old-ish Toshiba laptop (486, 200 mb, no CD) onto which I have > loaded the Debian v2.0 base system from the dos partition. I now want to add > a few console editing, development (mostly Python and C), and utility > packages; to this end I've copied the relevant binary-i package directories > (and packages) from an Infomagic CDR (11/98 ish) as well as the files > Package and Package.gz onto an Iomega zip drive, which I have mounted. I run > through dselect and select the zip directory, select the packages I want, > resolve (i trust) dependency issues and set it going. The process appears to > be collecting information about the packages but doesn't get very far at > all, and after a while finds "too many errors ..." and returns to the > dselect menu without installing the packages. I've looked through the > installation, faq, and tutorial documents, but haven't found anything > helpful on the topic. Does anybody know the solution?
The "too many errors" thing is a bug in dpkg, it should not stop just because "too many errors". This is usually avoided by using an installation method which does package ordering, like APT or dpkg-mountable. You may also do dpkg --pending --configure or select "4. [C]onfig" in dselect, and try to continue with the install after some packages have been configured.
