Re: dselect --multi cd Install from a CD-ROM set

2003-02-17 Thread Levi Waldron
On February 17, 2003 03:44 am, Colin Watson wrote: > Are "they"? I was under the impression that dpkg-multicd was all but > unmaintained and that one should use apt instead. You're right - the "latest news" from dpkg-multicd is from Oct 2001. I guess I got the impression it was being worked on f

Re: dselect --multi cd Install from a CD-ROM set

2003-02-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 10:23:14PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > On February 14, 2003 07:08 pm, you wrote: > > Yes, this is how I eventually managed to get packages from the set but > > wouldn't it have been easier if the dselect's access menu had the > > 'multi cd' option?  Supposedly my 3.0r1 Stab

Re: dselect --multi cd Install from a CD-ROM set

2003-02-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 10:23:14PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > On February 14, 2003 07:08 pm, you wrote: > > Yes, this is how I eventually managed to get packages from the set but > > wouldn't it have been easier if the dselect's access menu had the > > 'multi cd' option? ?Supposedly my 3.0r1 Stab

Re: dselect --multi cd Install from a CD-ROM set

2003-02-16 Thread Levi Waldron
On February 14, 2003 07:08 pm, you wrote: > Yes, this is how I eventually managed to get packages from the set but > wouldn't it have been easier if the dselect's access menu had the > 'multi cd' option?  Supposedly my 3.0r1 Stable CD Official set was up > to date. If you have all the CDs during t

Re: dselect --multi cd Install from a CD-ROM set

2003-02-14 Thread Levi Waldron
On February 14, 2003 02:56 pm, alex wrote: > I'll be installing Debian on another computer and would > like to have the  'multi cd  Install from a CD-ROM set' to > make things easier.  How can I add this option to my > dselect access menu? As root, just type "apt

dselect --multi cd Install from a CD-ROM set

2003-02-14 Thread alex
After finishing the Debian installation and experiencing difficulty dragging packages from my 7 CD Debian set by means of dselect, I did what common sense dictates, I RTFI about using dselect. This is when I discovered that my dselect is lacking the access menu item: multi cd Install from a

Re: Multi-CD install

1999-03-23 Thread Leszek Gerwatowski
hat - one now has to change CD's > to go through the entire install? > > When I select the multi-cd install, dselect give me the error > 'Cannot open /var/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd/available' . The only file in > the multicd directory is shvar.multicd . Is this c

Multi-CD install

1999-03-23 Thread Jor-el
Hi, The dselect interface now has an 'Access' option of 'multi-cd'. What is this? I've heard that as of Slink, the Debian binary packages can no longer fit in one CD. Is this due to that - one now has to change CD's to go through the entire install?