Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cs.leidenuniv.nl> writes: It appears Debian is older then we though :). Look at the contents of /usr/doc/debian/base: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1197 Jan 1 1970 debian.README No such file appears in my copy of Content-i386 from 28 Dec 1998. Where are you getting it from?