Quoting Chris Reay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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.
Hi Chris, IMHO there are two possible causes for your problem, first if you start dselect to install packages first time (i.e. after installing just the base-system) it tries to install all packages selected and all preselected packages (i. e. all packages with category essential and category standard) that means, you have to go through the select process with absolute care, setting all such preselected packages to HOLD you dont have on your zip-disk, or else make shure you include all that packages on your zip-disk (i know it's possible, tried it myself). Second thing to keep an eye on is the directory-structure on your zip-disk that (IMHO) has to mirror the original directory structures of the mirror you got your packages from. e. g. dists/stable/(architecture)/main/(category e. g. devel, base, doc etc.)/(package) because thats where dselect tries to find them and of cause complains if they are not there. hope not having told trash Helmut.
