Bug#42123: marked as done (specifying paths within archives at boot time)
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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>.''
ttfn/rjk
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From: Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>
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Subject: Re: specifying paths within archives at boot time
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In-Reply-To: <m13SaZo-000aldC@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>; from joey on Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 09:40:28AM +0200
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> > 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?
>
> My Debian archive is NFS-exported from the host `sfere' and is the
> result of copying a bunch of CDs into the directory `/opt/debian'. So
> we have local paths that look like /opt/debian/dists/slink/main/.....
>
> So when asked to MSG_CHOOSE_NFS_ANY_T "Choose NFS filesystem", I typed
> in "sfere:/opt/debian".
>
> But the next message was MSG_CHOOSE_PATH_NFS "Please choose the path
> inside the mounted NFS filesystem where the Debian archive resides."
>
> My guess was that it wanted me to type "dists/slink" at this point,
> but there wasn't anything on the screen that appeared to confirm this;
> and it could have meant dists/slink/main, or even just "/" (and ask
> for a distribution name later) or something else.
This is solved since a) the installation routine will check for the
most natural path itself and use it, and b) offers to open a path
navigator box in which you can navigate through the entire path tree
*inside* that mountpoint.
Regards,
Joey
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