dselect woes
I'm trying to use dselect to no avail. First I tried to tell dselect to
read the cdrom.
chose option a, saw the following
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If you make a mistake use the interrupt key ( ^C ) to abort.
I see that /dec/cdrom exists and is a block device
Inser the CD-ROM and enter the block device name [/dec/cdrom]
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So I inserted my handy dandy debian 1.3.1 binary cd, and hit return and
got this.
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mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device (
maybe 'insmod driver'?)
Unable to mount /dev/cdrom on /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt, type iso9660.
Insert the CD-ROM blah blah blah
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I figure OK, the machine does not like my cdrom drive. Why not try the
insmod driver thing.
So I type "insmod /dev/cdrom"
and get
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/dev/cdrom: /dev/cdrom: No such device
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So I figure that I should try the FTP method instead.
Picked that, chose all the defaults and then got
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Net::FTP: Bad hostname 'ftp.debian.org' at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm
line 405 FTP ERROR
query/setup script returned error exit status 1.
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OK, I obviously don't have a nameserver so I did a nslookup on
ftp.debian.org and tried again with 130.207.7.21 ( which is aliased to
santanni.cc.gatech.edu ). Default answer for everything else.
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Connecting to 130.207.7.21...
FTP ERROR
query/setup script returned errror exit status 1.
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What should I try now ?
Alfonso ( aka confused )
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