Re: dselect with multiple Packages lists

[Nick Busigin <xwing!nick@granite.sentex.net>]

On Tue, 30 Jan 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote:

> The dselect script mounts the drive for you.  When you select [A]ccess
> select "hardrive" and give the path to it _if_ it is already mounted.
         ^^^^^^^^^^

Why would I want to select "hardrive" when I want to install from my CDROM
drive?   I was able to get dselect to work with your 2nd suggestion though.

> If you try to mount it and it's already mounted, then dselect will cause it
> to become unmounted.

Eureka!  That last suggestion worked!  I unmounted my CD-ROM drive with
a 'umount /cdrom' and let dselect mount it instead and everything 
appears to have worked beautifully (except for the some packages that
didn't get configured due to dependency problems).   Hmmm... these
dependency problems partially scrolled off the screen.  It would have
been nice to capture them to a file... maybe dselect did that for me...
I'm going to look around.

Thanks!

                                    Nick

P.S.  Here's a comparison of how I normally mount my cdrom and how
      dselect mounted it:

# mount
/dev/sda3 on / type ext2 (rw)
/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/sbpcd0 on /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt type iso9660 (ro)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                 |                            
This is how dselect mounts it ---+

# mount
/dev/sda3 on / type ext2 (rw)
/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/sbpcd0 on /cdrom type iso9660 (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                   |
This is how I normally mount it----+

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Nick Busigin                                                nick@xwing.org
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