Re: Loading packages from zip drive

[Helmut Metzdorf <h-j-m@dialup.nacamar.de>]

Quoting Chris Reay <Chris.Reay@Pareto-Partners.com.au>:
> The process appears to
> be collecting information about the packages but doesn't get very far at
> all, and after a while finds "too many errors ..." and returns to the
> dselect menu without installing the packages.

Hi Chris,

 IMHO there are two possible causes for your problem, first if you start
 dselect to install packages first time (i.e. after installing just the 
 base-system) it tries to install all packages selected and all preselected
 packages (i. e. all packages with category essential and category standard)
 that means, you have to go through the select process with absolute care,
 setting all such preselected packages to HOLD you dont have on your zip-disk,
 or else make shure you include all that packages on your zip-disk (i know
 it's possible, tried it myself).

 Second thing to keep an eye on is the directory-structure on your zip-disk
 that (IMHO) has to mirror the original directory structures of the mirror
 you got your packages from. e. g. dists/stable/(architecture)/main/(category
 e. g. devel, base, doc etc.)/(package) because thats where dselect tries to
 find them and of cause complains if they are not there.

 hope not having told trash

 Helmut.