I've been trying to install Debian on a 486 laptop with floppies copied from the Debian site onto my desktop computer(I have no cdrom drive on the laptop).
Installing the base system went really well, but when I try to use dselect to add more packages, I run into trouble. Dselect prompts for the packages file from the main folder at the Debian site, but that file is too big to fit on a floppy (I think it's 1.6 megs). I've tried the packages.gz file and that doesn't work. I've also tried decompressing the packages.gz file on the laptop hard drive and getting dselect to read it from there, but I couldn't figure out how to do it. I know I must be missing a really obvious solution, but I'm stumped. I've read every applicable FAQ and saw no reference to this problem, so maybe you guys can help. My question is: how can I install more packages from the floppy drive? Thanks, Sheri __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
