I installed a fresh potato-system from 2 diskettes, files base2_2.tgz and drivers.tgz dated 2000-01-04. The rest pulled from the net.
I noted: The documentation give you a choice to use only the rescue-diskette, but I think there is no root system on that diskette now. I had to use the root-diskette too. The doc is probably erroneus. The /etc/apt/sources.list refers to the "stable" distribution. I think this is wrong in two senses. First, I undoubtedly installed the unstable distribution, forgetting to change this resulted in numerous version-inconsistencies. I thought I should change it to stable, but then I started to wonder what will happen when potato becomes stable, and a new debian distribution will be the unstable. I want to stay with potato (until I decide otherwise), so I changed the dist to potato in /etc/apt/sources.list. I think this should be default in the distribution. This installation was done with two diskettes, two files residing on a vfat partition, an the rest was to be done with apt-get. I noted that some package woulAd not install without perl-5.005, i think it was debconf. It would not pull down perl automatically. Johan A
