On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 08:40:14PM +1000, Jason Carley wrote: > Hi guys. I am really struggling here with the install of slink. Any help > greatly appreciated as I am being forced to run Win95. > > I boot up OK and get through to the point where we reboot the base system. > Then I run the pkgsel where I select dialup home user profile and launch into > dselect. > > Here is where I run into trouble. > > I go to the access method and choose multi-cd. I have the linux-central 2 > binary cd set. This seems to be OK until I am asked where to find the > packages.gz (?) file a number of times. I have tried all permutations of > /debian /debian/dists, /debian/dist s/slink/main/binary-i386 but get some errors for some packages. > > I have tried adding the second CD in at this point but that doesn't seem to > help I still get some errors. I then go to update the list of packages and > get numerous errors and an install stops very early. If the first cd is in > the drive I install perl bu t that is it. If the second is in the drive I get errors relating to the finding of a file in /var/something. > > I have ben trying to get this to work for some time. There has to be a > simpler way than this for the distribution to install dosen't there? I am > about to go back to SuSE in spite of my wish to try debain. Please can > someone tell me what I am doing wrong . It seems to be related to the 2 cd problemn but I just don't know. HELP.
Try it without the leading slash (debian/dists/...) Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
