You're not doing a net install? Unfortunately, I don't have anything really
constructive to add, except for suggesting a network install instead. ....
Russell
On Saturday 01 February 2003 06:14 pm, you wrote:
> This is the second set of Debian disks I've gotten from Cheapbytes that
> I can't install from. This happened with the 3.0 and now the 3.0r1
> versions. The disks are fine and read okay. It goes like this:
>
> I let dselect read all the disks and tell me all the packages that are
> available. It does this fine. I select what I want. Finally, it tells me
> it's going to install, and asks me to insert disk 1, which I do. Then it
> reads the disks and tells me it can't find things where they're supposed
> to be on the disk. It looks for a Packages.gz file on the disk, which it
> can't find. I tell it where it is, and then it tells me it can't find
> the *.deb files, which are in a tree of directories under the pool
> subdirectory. No matter what I tell it, it can't seem to match things
> up. I can't believe it's been butchered this way by CheapBytes-- it
> found the packages available in the first place; it just won't install
> them because it can't find the *.deb files (which are there).
>
> Someone tell me how to fix this.
>
> Paul
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