Re: Debian CD Install Problems
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 11:03:08PM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote:
> I purchased the Debian 3.0r1 CDs from Cheapbytes recently, and have been
> unable to install from them. I had a similar thing happen with the 3.0
> CDs. Here's what happens:
>
> Debian boots from the first CD, asks questions as usual, then asks for
> all the CDs to scan them. It builds the list of packages and runs
> dselect to allow me to choose which packages I want, which I do. At some
> point it proceeds to pull the packages off the disk to install them,
> which is where the trouble starts.
>
> It doesn't automatically find where things are on the CD. Instead, it
> asks me for the location of location of the top level "Packages-Master"
> file. It reads the at the location I give it, and then tells me there
> are no *.deb packages there. It then asks me where the *.deb files are.
> Well, they're not in one location-- they're in subdirectories under the
> pool subdirectory. When I give it that location, it continues to give me
> problems.
>
> I'm at a loss. The exact same thing happened with the Deb 3.0 disks, and
> I can't imagine that Cheapbytes screwed up the burns the same way. There
> is something about the way dselect is trying to find things-- somehow
> the discs are not organized the way it thinks.
>
> Surely someone's had this problem before and knows the answer. Help?!
>
I'm not sure it was the same, but it certainly sounds
similar. I had trouble because I used /z as the mount
point for my CD-rom instead of /cdrom. Even linking
/cdrom to /z didn't work, but changing the /etc/fstab
entry back to /cdrom solved the problem.
David
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