Bug#42123: specifying paths within archives at boot time
Richard Kettlewell <rjk@sfere.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> At various places in the installation process, one is asked to specify
> paths to archives, etc. In practice one then has to guess exactly
> which directory is meant - .../debian/dists/slink, perhaps, or
> .../debian, or something else.
>
> It would be very helpful if there could be more explicit directions as
> to what one should look for - either by filename or by directory
> contents or, ideally, both. e.g. some text of the form ``the
> directory you are looking for is probably called <spong> and contains
> the files <foo> and <bar>.''
I'm sure you're correct but I'm not quite clear in what you're talking about.
Are you talking about installation from a CD? Or configuring apt or
dpkg-ftp in dselect after base installation is complete? Which exact
steps do you mean?
We might even be able to go further and look for standard paths
automatically, and preselect those.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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