Re: SV: A little further: Short newbie question
vw@geus.DK wrote:
> Thanks a tremendous lot for all the help. It really helps keeping my spirit
> up as a newbie.
> I managed to mount the dos partition allright, but it seems like dselect
> wants an exact copy of the ftp-site, which is a problem since I can't make
> the directory "binary-i386" with only 8 characters allowed in dos.
> Seems like I'm gonna have to borrow a cd-drive off of somebody and try to do
> the installation from there, alternatively (re)install the winbastard in the
> dos-partition to be able to use longer names. Damn.
> Anyone got any brilliant ideas for a (masochist?!) newbie?!
> Regards
> Vitux
>
> Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer...
You can download the base install to floppies (7 or 10 or so) and install the base.
That will get you a minimal system that is capable of dialing into your ISP, at which
time you can configure dselect to use ftp or the apt method. Then whenever you
install a package you'll get the most recent stable release (or unstable if you so
specify) by downloading at install time. On a slow dial-up link, it takes some time,
but it sure is easy. Be aware that if you want to re-use the downloaded files, you
may have to do some finagling, because I believe the apt method automatically deletes
the deb files after they've been installed.
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