Re: Debian install problem
Greets,
> If you've got an ftp server on your Win95 machine (and some way of
> connecting to it like TCP/IP), you can start up dselect, select "Access",
> "Ftp", and give it the information it asks for, starting with the
> location of your win95 machine. Otherwise, you can install via ftp from
> one of the debian ftp sites (try ftp.debian.org :))
I'm not sure that this will work. Last time I tried (with a Bo CD and NT
as the FTP server), this failed miserably. One reason seemed to be that
dselect was looking for case sensitive file names, and NT takes a lot of
liberties with it's filename cases.
Another problem is that NT can't understand symlinks, and there are a lot
of links in binary-i386 pointing to binary-all. The FTP server on NT will
just see these as 0 length files, and dpkg will choke on them.
Installing from a linux FTP, OTOH, is a breeze. But that's a chicken and
egg problem, isn't it :)
Damon
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