initial install using ftp & dselect question

["Francis J. Bruening" <francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com>]

Greetings,

I'm trying to get Debian 2.1 (slink) installed on my system, via ftp.

I get to the point where I successfully download all the packages I
selected. However, they aren't installed. I find them all in
/var/cache/apt/archives...

Dselect finishes up at this poing, (runs thru config & remove) but doesn't
install the files.

Am I missing something? Do I have to actually go into the archive dir and do
a dpkg -I *???

Suggestions very much appreciated.

Thanks,

Francis