trouble getting the NONUS binary image

2001-07-27 Thread Hanno Dierke

Hi,
 I've got some trouble getting the binary-i386-1_NONUS image. If I
understood the LIST-file correctly, it looks for the most files in
.../dists/potato/(main,contrib)/..., .../(tools,doc)/... and for the
non-US files in  dists/potato/non-us/...
Unfortunately the non-US files on the servers I tested are located at
/debian-non-US/dists/potato/... and not at
/debian/dists/potato/... like the other ones (especially the
"tools" and "docs" directory).

Any hint how to fix it? Just modify the LIST-file?

Hanno Dierke


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http://cdimage.debian.org/ch11.html

2001-07-27 Thread Patrick Mackinlay

After having clicked on a number of questions regarding installing 
debian I reached the following page:
http://cdimage.debian.org/ch11.html
I eventually found the directory (The path on the above page was wrong!)
in question:
ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/2.2.23-2001-04-15

The above page says that all I have to do is "download this directory", 
so where do I put it? What is the procedure to install over ftp?

I have installed numerous linux installations and have been using linux 
for over 6 years. Working out how to installing debian over ftp is 
proving to be as hard as installing my first ever version of slackware!

I really think your documentation is severly lacking in this area, I 
could not find any information on how to install by ftp on:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install.en.html
At this rate I will have to give up and either burn a CD image or simply 
stick to RedHat.


regards,
Patrick
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Re: http://cdimage.debian.org/ch11.html

2001-07-27 Thread MPfeifer

hi patrick,

> The above page says that all I have to do is "download this directory",
> so where do I put it? What is the procedure to install over ftp?

it's very easy (maybe the document is written too complicated)
you don't really have to download that whole directory. if you are on a
network and have a quite common NIC you also can just download the kernel
in the compact directory (subdirectory of the URL you gave) and "root.bin"
, make two floppies with these two files and boot. then you just have to
enter the FTP-URL were you want to fetch the packages from.

if you are not on a network and don't have a usual NIC, you have to make
floppies from rescue.bin root.bin, all the drivers-images and all the
base-images. i think something like 17 floppies.


hope this helps

markus


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How do I create a Packages file?

2001-07-27 Thread Justin F. Knotzke


Hi,

The readme in debian-cd stats the following:

Local packages
==

If you provide some custom made packages and you want to put them on
Debian CD set you can do it. Simply put your packages in
$MIRROR/dists/$CODENAME/local/binary-$ARCH/.  The organization
of this sub-tree is the same than what you can find in the main, contrib
or non-free part. You may use different section names if you want. Be
sure to create Packages files (and Sources.gz if you include sources).  


I have done all except create the so called "Packages" file. How do
I do that?

Thanks
Justin.

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Re: How do I create a Packages file?

2001-07-27 Thread Wichert Akkerman

Previously Justin F. Knotzke wrote:
>   I have done all except create the so called "Packages" file. How do
> I do that?

dpkg-scanpackages or apt-ftparchive.

Wichert.

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Re: How do I create a Packages file?

2001-07-27 Thread Justin F. Knotzke

On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:10:29PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Justin F. Knotzke wrote:
> > I have done all except create the so called "Packages" file. How do
> > I do that?
> 
> dpkg-scanpackages or apt-ftparchive.

Ahh that's it. Thanks.

I am still stumped with something relatively simple (or I think it
is).

I want to be able to add a series of packages to my Debian CD and
have them show up in the Advanced option (using dselect).

Right now, I have: dists/stable/local/binary-386/admin/

In this directory are all my "local" packages.

I want to create a Packages file for this directory. I've tried
dpkg-scanpackages at various places, with various options and either
make mirrorcheck fails or debian-cd doesn't quite build the CD the way
that I want it..

Where and with what options should I pass to dpkg-scanpackages in
order so that my CD be built correctly?

Thanks
Justin.


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