trouble getting the NONUS binary image

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 te

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

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

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

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

How do I create a Packages file?

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 su

Re: How do I create a Packages file?

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. -- _ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently tal

Re: How do I create a Packages file?

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 w