Re: Cheapbytes Debian 2.1
Allen Wong wrote:
>
> Is it safe to say that this is not because of my own stupidity? I
> checked the files in the CD against the files on a Debian FTP site and
> the version numbers match. Yet, dselect keeps telling me that netbase
> and a few other packages are not the right version. I ignore it and
> tell it to install anyway, but it kicks out an "Error 1", I think,
> something about some script not being there. I then press <return> and
> I am sent back to the main menu. Ordinarily, I buy from LSL. Are their
> Debian CDs better? I bought from Cheapbytes this time because I wanted
> to try Stampede Linux too.
>
That's strange. I'm not very familiar with the ins and outs of dselect.
Just a thought: I looked up netbase and saw that it's in the base
utilities. Maybe someone else will chime in here if I'm wrong, but I am
thinking that this set of packages is installed after you set up your
partitions and before you reboot to run dselect (Is this correct?
--anyone?). Maybe you can make some install floppies and install the
base system from them, then when you reboot and run dselect install from
the cd-rom.
See
http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-install-all-from-floppies
for info on doing this.
I used to buy from LSL too, but they seemed too expensive to me (with
shipping and everything). They also dropped their My Debian products (or
I just can't find them) which you could pick and choose from.
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