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Serious install problems - please help urgently



Hi guys.  I am really struggling here with the install of slink. Any help greatly appreciated as I am being forced to run Win95.
 
I boot up OK and get through to the point where we reboot the base system. Then I run the pkgsel where I select dialup home user profile and launch into dselect.
 
Here is where I run into trouble.
 
I go to the access method and choose multi-cd.  I have the linux-central 2 binary cd set. This seems to be OK until I am asked where to find the packages.gz (?) file a number of times. I have tried all permutations of /debian /debian/dists, /debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386 but get some errors for some packages.
 
I have tried adding the second CD in at this point but that doesn't seem to help I still get some errors. I then go to update the list of packages and get numerous errors and an install stops very early. If the first cd is in the drive I install perl but that is it. If the second is in the drive I get errors relating to the finding of a file in /var/something.
 
I have ben trying to get this to work for some time. There has to be a simpler way than this for the distribution to install dosen't there? I am about to go back to SuSE in spite of my wish to try debain. Please can someone tell me what I am doing wrong. It seems to be related to the 2 cd problemn but I just don't know. HELP.
 
 
Regards,
 
Jason.

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