Re: bootdisks question...
On Wed, 20 May 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> On Tue, 19 May 1998, Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Not true.
>
> I don't appreciate being called a liar!
Touche. My apologies. Note that I don't call you a liar though - I
simply claim something is not true. This merely means that I claimed you
were mistaken. In any case, it seems I was wrong - and I apologise.
>
> > When it asks for the top dir, you reply 'debian'.
> >
> > When it asks which distributions you want, reply 'dists/frozen/main
> > dists/frozen/contrib dists/frozen/non-free'.
>
> There are several access options in dselect, which seem to have
> different defaults and dialogs. What you are quoting sounds like the
> ftp option. I have recently used the following options to access my
> local mirror:
>
> mounted - Install from a filesystem which is already mounted.
> harddisk - Install from a hard disk partition (not yet mounted).
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Yup, you're right. I was talking about FTP. Sorry for the confusion.
Hmm.. this does look like a problem. Almost seems like another reason to
recommend apt, which will take a file:// URL and understands the structure
of the dists directory..
Jules
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