Thanks! Problem solved.
Trying the manual approach didn't work (dselect said the contrib directory
didn't exist), but the soft links did work:
mkdir /install
ln -s /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8 /install/stable
ln -s /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/contrib /install/contrib
Robin
>There are two ways I can think of to
>No, you should enter /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8, not indices.
Sounds logical, but dselect still didn't work.
The screen output is something like this:
|-
| Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block device name [] __/dev/sonycd__
| ISO966
On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Robin Rowe wrote:
>... objects that it can't find /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/indices/stable/binary-i386.
> There is no 'stable' directory on my CD.
>
I was just wondering if you had "mount"ed your CD-rom before you ran dselect?
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On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 17:30:01 PST Robin Rowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> When I run dselect it asks me for the location of the Packages-Master file.
> I assume what it wants is /cdrom/Debian-1.1.8/indices/Packages-Master-i386,
> and therefore enter the directory path to that file. However, dsele
Hi. In October I got Debian on the CD-ROM from Dale Scheetz, but had some
problems getting it to work with my CD-ROM. I got sidetracked and have only
recently gotten back to trying to finish installing Debian. I now have the
base system installed but have a problem installing any packages.
When I
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