On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 03:26:24PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > - When asked what access method to use (cdrom / http / ftp / manual > > > edit) I chose cdrom, and was subsequently prompted for the name of the > > > cdrom. The example was something like "Debian 2.1r4 cdrom 1", which is > > > (a) a wrong example to give as most end users will copy that, and > > > (b) not what the volume label is, which is reasonably easy to find out: > > > LABEL=`dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=1 skip=32808 count=32 | tr` > > > will do nicely. I believe there's a specific tool for this > > > somewhere, but can't recall its name just now. > > > > Um. At what stage does this occur? Looks like you should file a bug > > against base-config I guess. > > Apt, actually. That's apt-cdrom doing that prompting. And it should only > prompt for rather damanged or badly-made cd images's, if I recall correctly. I have make debian potato cd-set with a 04042000 Mirror and I have no Problems. > > > - After the procedure scans the "index" files (I guess the Packages > > > files), it came back to the question of what access method to use > > > (cdrom / http / ftp / manual edit). By choosing "manual edit" and then > > > quitting ae it went onto the next phase. > > > > This sounds like a nasty base-config problem. I have the same 'Problem'. > Pauil, did you see a failure message? There are only supposed to be two > branches that code can take: > > * apt-get update returns failure. Display a message with the failure > message from apt, and return to start. I don't see a failure. > * apt-get update retyurns success. Make new source perminant, and ask > the user if they want to add another entry. If so, return to start, if > not, exit. I think this was it. Can you add a text like this "If you have add all your sources, go to exit" Can you make a 'back button' in debconf-frontend? I miss this button ... Gruss Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@master.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux »Unix IS user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !«
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