Steve, In my opinion, multi_cd is quite unintuitive and difficult for someone new to debian to understand. There is no clear explanantion of when to change the disks, what to enter at each prompt and how to do the update. I should know too, I had great trouble with it. Ended up mounting the disk manually and installing from there.
These things should generally be approached from the point of view of: If I was technical but totally new to debian (not UNIX/Linux) and just wanted to install the CD set, could I just put the disk in and follow the prompts? Particularly relevant for dselelct as it seems to be more used by newer users. I have seem many problems posted here recently. Regards, Jason. -----Original Message----- From: Steve McIntyre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 6:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re[2]: The vexed 2-CD problem... Bob Bernstein writes: > >Now as to the abovementioned 'vexed problem,' since I'm the resident Debian >advocate where I hang out, has any progress been made on the two-cd thing? Do >they work now? I presume you're talking about getting the multi-cd install method working? Exactly what problems have you had? It works fine for me and lots of other people as far as I can tell, but admittedly I cheated in learning how it works - I helped write it... Please, if you have any problems let me know. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cable, one on the far end, and the goat, terminated over the SCSI chain with a silver-handled knife whilst burning *black* candles. --- Anthony DeBoer -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
