My advice is to not use the sid binary iso's at all. Download the woody ones and upgrade to sid once the installation is complete -- if you're feeling dangerous. If you're new to debian, stick with woody for a couple weeks until you get the hand of apt and package management.. not mention the general non-RedHat way that Debian does things.
And then you'll see the light in your intelligent decision to ditch the redUgly dist. :)
cheers,
Matt
On Sun, 2001-12-16 at 18:06, Mike Russell wrote:
> Im a new user thats just moved from Redhat. I have > downloaded the sid i386 binary 1 disc. > > I am having a problem that the installer cannot find: > basedebs.tgz > > >From searching the web and the mailing lists I have > found out that the basedebs.tgz file is not meant to > exist on the cd. > > or else it wants > dists/woody/binary-i386/Release > > which is not on my cd i think as I downloaded the sid > iso image. > > I would tell the installer to get the files from a ftp > server but my network card wont work in the installer. > The module loads but the dhcp fails and configuring > manually didnt help either. > > I have tried downloaing the files onto a windows > partition but when it is mounted there are no long > filenames. also the same thing when I put them on cd. > > I have also tried making a basedebs.tgz file but the > install errors on extracting it (probably because I > made it in windows). > > Should the files that are needed for the base system > be on the binary disc 1 cd? > > Could anyone help? > > ~Mike > > > > ===== > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of > your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com > or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
