Re: Slink Status
On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>On Thursday 7 January 1999, at 11 h 25,
>Steve McIntyre <stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> dselect tutorial:
>> For those people using CDs, a quick description of the multi-cd method
>> would be very useful. Experienced Debian users have had problems with
>> this, especially when they see "no such file or directory" errors during
>> the install process.
>
>I must confess I don't know this error and I use multi_cd for a very long
>time. What's the problem?
ISTR seeing a lot of these myself - multicd appears to work by making
sym-links to the appropriate files at installation time, then installing
from these. But the ones missing from a given disk (on another) will
generate errors that look nasty even if they're not...
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