Re: [SLUG] Debian Disk install problems

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Mon Feb 03 2003 - 18:57:06 EST


On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:52:34AM -0500, Russell Hires wrote:

> You're not doing a net install? Unfortunately, I don't have anything really
> constructive to add, except for suggesting a network install instead. ....

At the time I wrote that, the NIC didn't work, so no 'net install. Now
it works. I also resolved the other problem as well. Tedious.

Paul

>
> 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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