RE: problems installing Slink from apt

[Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com>]

On 10-Aug-99 Pollywog wrote:
> I copied some new images to a set of floppies and installed the base
> system
> to my ThinkPad (seven floppies) and all goes well until I have to choose
> how to install the rest of the system.  The FTP option is gone, and I can
> only use it with APT and this is not good, because I cannot get to my
> CDROM
> that way.  The CD is on another machine and is mounted to my home
> directory, mount point /home/pollywog/debian
> 
> I am not set up for anonymous FTP, so is there a way to get APT to log in
> with a password?
> 

Nevermind folks.  I tried and tried but apt-get was unable to find
Packages.gz on my CD no matter what I did, so I am downloading the rest of
the system from Debian's ftp using apt-get.  It will take 12 hrs but there
was no other way.

thanks

--
Andrew