Re: Custom Boot Disk and Network Problems
To use the custom boot disk, just stick it in the drive and reboot. But
I don't think it'll make your probing problems go away.
The installation kernels seem to probe for just about every cdrom drive
known on heaven and earth, and ditto for network cards. But that's how
it should be, because it has to cater for the maximum number of cases.
Count yourself fortunate - my DEPCA card is completely dead after all that
probing, and has to be powered off before it'll work again with DOS. Luckily
I decided to keep all the .deb files when I installed another machine,
so I'm using a zip drive to install from.
If you have the room, it's certainly a good idea to keep the .deb files
to start with. Moving them out of /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp... will stop
all the interminable checking, but it means you can reinstall things
from a mounted disk if you screw up in dselect.
dselect takes some getting used to, but I've found that a bit of
repetition often works. I tend to let it choose the default system,
screw up, then I repeat it once, which solves most things, then I select
one thing at a time where it can't sort itself out.
You'll especially thank yourself for keeping the .deb files if you
manage to break dpkg-ftp as I did once!
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David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
U.K. email: d.wright@open.ac.uk tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151
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