On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 11:03:08PM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: > I purchased the Debian 3.0r1 CDs from Cheapbytes recently, and have been > unable to install from them. I had a similar thing happen with the 3.0 > CDs. Here's what happens: > > Debian boots from the first CD, asks questions as usual, then asks for > all the CDs to scan them. It builds the list of packages and runs > dselect to allow me to choose which packages I want, which I do. At some > point it proceeds to pull the packages off the disk to install them, > which is where the trouble starts. > > It doesn't automatically find where things are on the CD. Instead, it > asks me for the location of location of the top level "Packages-Master" > file. It reads the at the location I give it, and then tells me there > are no *.deb packages there. It then asks me where the *.deb files are. > Well, they're not in one location-- they're in subdirectories under the > pool subdirectory. When I give it that location, it continues to give me > problems. > > I'm at a loss. The exact same thing happened with the Deb 3.0 disks, and > I can't imagine that Cheapbytes screwed up the burns the same way. There > is something about the way dselect is trying to find things-- somehow > the discs are not organized the way it thinks. > > Surely someone's had this problem before and knows the answer. Help?! >
I'm not sure it was the same, but it certainly sounds similar. I had trouble because I used /z as the mount point for my CD-rom instead of /cdrom. Even linking /cdrom to /z didn't work, but changing the /etc/fstab entry back to /cdrom solved the problem. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
