Re: why does dselect read entire CD?
"Chris R. Martin" <nakor@swbell.net> writes:
> I finally got a Debian 2.0 CD, and upgrading has been really easy. However,
> why does dselect feel the need to read every package file and say "skipping
> deselected file" ?? This really slows down the upgrade on my slower CD-ROM,
> since it aparently has to perform an access for every package file whether
> I want it or not.
>
> Is there some way to prevent dselect from doing this?
Use the mountable or mounted method.
Jens
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