Problem installing minicom
O.K..I can't seem to connect to my ISP, so everyone's telling me to use
minicom. Fine. So I downloaded minicom*.deb DIRECTLY on floppy (Was I
supposed to rawrite it?)..O.K so I specified 'floppy' as the access method
in dselect, then the drive as A, and msdos as the drive format. Then dselect
responded saying:
Fist I need the disks containing the Packages file(s) for the parts of the
archive you wish to be able to install. If you need to install from the
non-free and contrib areas of the FTP site, you need a floppy with the
Packages file for the main Debian distribution. If you don't, then you just
need one Packages file
Insert a disk containing a Packages file, or type q to quit.
I pressed enter on inserting the floppy, and dselect told me:
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/Packages does not exist
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/Packages does not exist
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt/Packages does not exist
So I copied the Packages file from
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/Packages
on the same floppy as minicom and I also copied wvdial
I ran dselect again and encountered the same error.
I even tried what you said, Brandon: dpkg -i minicom*.deb
but it gave an error, since it doesn't know where to find the file.
So I tried: dpkg -i /dev/fd0/minicom*.deb, and dpkg replied saying:
dpkg: error processing /dev/fd0/minicom*.deb (--install):
cannot access archive : not a directory
Errors were encountered while processing /dev/fd0/minicom*.deb
So then I tried dpkg -i /dev/fd0, but I got
dpkg-deb:/dev/fd0' is not a debian format archive
dpkg: error processing /dev/fd0 (--install):
subprocess dpkg-deb--control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing /dev/fd0
Could someone tell me how to install minicom and/or wvdial from floppy?
-----Original Message-----
From: Brandon Mitchell <bhmit1@mail.wm.edu>
To: Michelle Coelho <mcoelho@purdue.edu>
Date: Thursday, January 28, 1999 11:53 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Help!!! Can't connect to my ISP using pon
>On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Michelle Coelho wrote:
>
>> If it's not too much to ask..could you tell me step-wise how I should
>> install minicom.
>
>One step: dpkg -i minicom*.deb
>
>It's quite possible that the default strings pppconfig gives you will be
>correct. Just don't select pap when the time comes.
>
>Good luck,
>Brandon
>
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